How NIL gifted Ohio State football arguably the nation’s best cornerback group

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Denzel Burke, an Ohio State cornerback, is known for his candour in media interviews.

That brutal honesty has remained consistent over the last three years, as he has progressed from helping salvage the cornerback position in Columbus to being the face of what may be the nation’s top defensive back talent by 2024. No one in the once-heralded 2021 OSU recruiting class has played more football than him, including Marvin Harrison Jr. and Michael Hall Jr., who have subsequently declared for the NFL Draft.