Elite Baton Rouge Safety Blaine Bradford Commits To Ohio State Over LSU

By Staff Reporter•Mar 31, 202510:28 am•Discuss the story83
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Elite five-star safety Blaine Bradford from Baton Rouge announced his commitment to Ohio State on Monday morning, picking the Buckeyes over LSU.

Bradford, a 6-1, 207-pounder from Catholic High School, is rated the No. 1 safety in the country and No. 2 overall player in Louisiana for 2026.

Blaine's older brother, Jacob Bradford, signed with LSU in December as a four-star safety.




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Beamis24•19 months
I'm all for not over paying for high school players. If a player really wants to be at LSU they will be a tiger. There is no need to get into a bidding war for a high school player.
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oleheat•19 months
A sensible take.
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TGK4LSU•19 months
"Ohio State is the best place for my development and for my future.”

That's pretty comical. In other words, they are willing to write a bigger check.
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DVinBR•19 months
what was the last big recruit in Louisiana to go to Ohio State lmao, purely about money here
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Northshoretiger87•19 months
Or maybe he doesn’t want to settle for 9-3 with CBK?
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BeachTiger2018•19 months
yep doesn't matter where a kid is from anymore, all about the highest bidder
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deltafarmer•19 months
A commitment these days only means that a price has been set as a starting point in negotiations.
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Solo Cam•19 months
Just give it time and don't trash the kid or his family. These commitments don't mean shite
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tgerb8•19 months
“Ohio State is the best place for my development and for my future.”
Joe Burrow probably said that at least once too.
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Furious•19 months
This is all a money play. He is telling LSU to pony up. No way does his family want the brothers go g to different schools, as long as the money is similar. Go get him Gordon, get it done.
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jrobic4•19 months
Easy. If Jacob isn't actually a baller, yank his scholarship and tell him to go check out OSU with lily bro...
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El Jefe de Tu Mama•19 months
Pitch in!
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BZ504•19 months
“Ohio State will pay more than LSU”
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terriblegreen•19 months
I have reached the point of not giving a shite.
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Spankum•19 months
Best of luck to this young man in the future. We’re better off focusing attention on guys that want to play for LSU.
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DVinBR•19 months
I hope all of his classmates at Catholic frick with him on this, how many reason$ did it take to commit to Ohio $tate
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Flablete•19 months
It is all about making LSU pony up more NIL money...no worries on this front
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FinkyStinger•19 months
Maybe he wants to play for the Saints.
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Popstiger•19 months
That’s a good one! I don’t really understand what the Saints problem is but they got one
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225Tyga•19 months
hopefully this is a negotiation tactic similar to what Underwood did to us.
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TheosDeddy•19 months
That's what I'm thinking
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CharlesLSU•19 months
The new state of college FB. Don’t care anymore and my stress levels over this game are super low. Good times.

Young man will undoubtedly transfer at some point.
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DVinBR•19 months
Offer him more money he'll flip
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Load Toad•19 months
LSU needs save money for transfer players. High schools players might be a bust.
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Shaq4prez•19 months
big deal. We will buy a better safety that some other school preps for LSU. OSU will prep Bradford for his transfer destination. Maybe it will be LSU.
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Bayou•19 months
He knows he won't beat out his brother here
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Jabontik•19 months
Probably has never beaten his big bro at anything. Just a scared little boy
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namvet6566•19 months
Just wait until he realizes how different Ohio people compared to us. I lived in Ohio for 4 years, the most. Resist. State in the Country.
And……they have absolutely zero Food we have
But. Good Luck. See you in 2 years
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Woodman•19 months
Just ask the folks in places nearby Columbus (Springfield) how racist they are. Even our VP dissed the place and he was representing them.
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TigerinKorea•19 months
If things don't go the way he wants in Columbus, we'll get him in the transfer portal next year.
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