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JACKSON, Ala. — If anyone had a successful pitch for 2026 running back Ezavier Crowell, it was Ohio State running backs coach Carlos Locklyn.
Fresh off a national championship win with a tandem of running backs who are both projected as either Day 1 or Day 2 picks in the 2025 NFL draft — one of whom hails from the state of Alabama — Locklyn pitched Crowell on being next; on taking that same path.
But it was a pitch, Jackson High School football coach Cody Flournoy remembers, as having its limit. Locklyn, a Montgomery native, knew what he was up against: Alabama football and Auburn.
“He told us sitting right in here that he didn’t think EJ was going to get out of the state,” Flournoy told The Tuscaloosa News. “But if he did, Ohio State would be a good place.”
Ohio State is just one of many schools after Crowell. A carousel of high-profile college football coaches have been parading into that same field house, making that same pitch, seeing Crowell as the guy, the gamechanger for a College Football Playoff contender.
That’s the only running back Crowell knows how to be. From the first time the 5-foot-11, 215-pound back touched a football at Jackson, he was evading tacklers and barreling through anyone keeping him from the end zone.
Crowell is enjoying the recruiting process. He originally set his commitment date for Dec. 31, one he wavered on in mid April before officially making a change April 28, leaving an open date for a potential decision, which could come before his junior and final season at Jackson after reclassifying from the 2027 recruiting class.
But Crowell doesn’t feel a rush. When the time comes, he will sit down with his family, measure each option and pick what feels right.
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