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Prized New Jersey linebacker recruit picks Ohio State over Nebraska and Penn State

Cody Simon, a key Nebraska recruiting target at inside linebacker, verbally committed to Ohio State on Saturday.

The inside linebacker position is considered a prime area of need for the Huskers in their class of 2020.

The 6-foot-2, 215-pound Simon, a consensus four-star prospect who attends St. Peter's Prep in Jersey City, New Jersey, visited Lincoln the weekend of June 7 before visiting Ohio State two weeks later.

"Ohio State was great," Simon told Rivals.com last week. "We hadn’t been there in two years and we saw a lot of the campus, how the city is thriving, and how the football team is thriving.