{"id":632859,"date":"2026-05-09T12:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/632859\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:56:14","slug":"trae-taylor-on-ohio-state-interest-im-a-cornhusker-refuse-to-burn-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/632859\/","title":{"rendered":"Trae Taylor on Ohio State interest: \u2018I\u2019m a Cornhusker, refuse to burn bridges\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Ohio State pursues another quarterback in the 2027 class, one of the targets on the board is Nebraska\u2019s prized commit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/trae-taylor-152734\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Trae Taylor;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Trae Taylor&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Trae Taylor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Buckeyes staff was recently out to visit Taylor at his school and there has been some dialogue as well with the talented signal-caller who\u2019s been a verbal to the Huskers for nearly a year now.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point in the process Ohio state stands where the other schools stand,\u201d Taylor laughed. \u201cI\u2019m committed to not taking any trips to campus. But I\u2019m definitely not going to ignore any coach that calls me. The way football is now I refuse to burn any bridges. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m a Cornhusker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taylor has been to Lincoln for every major recruiting weekend since he gave head coach Matt Rhule and his staff a pledge. That included the spring game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis spring game to me was awesome,\u201d Taylorr said at the time. \u201cWhat stands out is the development I\u2019m seeing in many positions. And what really excites me is so many young guys are producing already. Jamal Rule running hard.\u00a0 Well the whole running back group looked dominant. Luke (Lindenmeyer) crushing people and making a tough catch while getting hit. Claude (Mpouma) is coming a long way fast. There is more I can point to. It just fun to see the young guys working.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the staff is clearly working their butts off to develop and of course recruit,\u201d Taylor continued. \u201cI just love this whole staff my offensive staff. We\u2019ve always been on the same page. But to build my relationship with the defensive staff has been so fun. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust love what I\u2019m seeing and know I picked the best place for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rivals ranks Taylor as the No. 5 quarterback in the 2027 class. He is the No. 63 prospect overall per the Rivals Industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Ohio State pursues another quarterback in the 2027 class, one of the targets on the board is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,34710,398,396,397,6339,99,22093,273474,273473],"class_list":["post-632859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-matt-rhule","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-ohio-state","tag-sports","tag-taylor","tag-the-buckeyes","tag-trae-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}