From the moment Ohio State officially extended an offer to legacy three-star defensive tackle Will Smith Jr. on Jan. 14, it was only a matter of time until he committed to the Scarlet and Gray. What seemed inevitable became official nine days later when he gave his verbal commitment to Ryan Day and defensive line coach Larry Johnson after he made the 15-minute trek from Dublin for an unofficial visit to Ohio State on Saturday. He announced his commitment to the public on Sunday evening. “It’s obviously something I’ve been seriously thinking about since they offered last week,” Smith Jr. told Eleven Warriors. “But even before that. I wasn’t focused on them as much as I was focused on the schools that had offered me but it was always something in my mind. So when it came, it just got real and I thought a lot about it and talked it over with my mom a lot.…
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