Pressure Mounting for Ryan Day, Ohio State Concerning 5-Star QB Recruit

There is a whole lot of pressure on Ryan Day and the Ohio State Buckeyes to land this elite quarterback recruit.

Ohio State Buckeye head coach Ryan Day addresses his team after the spring game at Ohio Stadium on April 12, 2025. / Kyle Robertson/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

The Ohio State Buckeyes have landed multiple five-star quarterback recruits in recent years, bagging both Julian Sayin and Tavien St. Clair. Both of them are on the roster heading into 2025.

However, you can never have enough competition under center, and Ohio State is still making a push for yet another five-star signal-caller for the class of 2026: Ryder Lyons.

Lyons recently revealed that he is inching closer to making his decision, and while the Buckeyes aren't the favorites, Ryan Day and Co. are in the mix.

USC and Oregon are generally considered the favorites for Lyons, a Folsom, Ca. native who may understandably prefer to stay on the West Coast. That being said, Braulio Perez of Scarlet & Game is not ruling out Ohio State just yet.

"Nothing will be over until Ryan Day decides it is," Perez wrote. "Imagine hypothetically that Lyons doesn't visit Ohio State this summer, but then the Buckeyes get him on campus for the season-opener vs. Texas. You think he's not going to have an unreal time watching the best game of opening weekend in an incredible atmosphere at The Shoe? Yeah, he'll probably have one of the best days of his life."

Perez then applied some pressure on Day to get something done, at least as far as organizing a trip to Columbus for Lyons.

"It will be on Day to try and get something finalized, but with the more time that passes, the more worried OSU fans will be about no QB being on board for '26," Perez added.

Lyons is the fifth-ranked quarterback in the country and the 19th-ranked player overall, via 247Sports' composite rankings.

We'll see if Day can pull a rabbit out of a hat by somehow securing a commitment from the 6-foot-3, 220-pound signal-caller.

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