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What Emeka Egbuka’s Commitment Means for Ohio State’s 2021 Recruiting Class

With less than 1,000 students enrolled, Steilacoom High School, which sits less than an hour outside of Seattle, is not a big school, and its football program competes at the 2A level – the middle tier of the state's competition levels.

But its best player is no mid-tier talent.

Five-star recruit Emeka Egbuka, the nation's No. 1 receiver and No. 9 overall player nationally, is one of the 2021 recruiting class' best talents.

Egbuka committed to Ohio State on Friday, and we take a look at what the 6-foot-1, 190-pound senior brings to the Buckeyes on and off the field:

On the field

During his junior season in 2019 – the last time he played in a game after Washington pushed the 2020 high school football season to the spring – Egbuka showed up in the biggest games of the season.