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Aug 31, 2024; Columbus, OH, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback Air Noland (12) warms up prior to the NCAA football game against the Akron Zips at Ohio Stadium.

Ohio State QB Air Noland, former five-star recruit, hits portal

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Quarterback Air Noland is back on the runway, entering the transfer portal Monday after one season at Ohio State.

Noland ranked in the top five among quarterbacks in the Class of 2024 and picked the Buckeyes over Alabama and Miami in April 2023.

The Buckeyes anticipate strong competition for the starting job in 2025 with freshman transfer Julian Sayin (originally committed to Alabama) and Tavien St. Clair, a five-star prospect who was ranked as high as No. 3 overall in the 2025 class.

Noland had 55 touchdown passes in 2022 to lead Langston Hughes High School to its first Georgia state championship and ended his high school career with 126 touchdowns.

Devin Brown is working as the backup to Will Howard in playoff preparations, coach Ryan Day said, but Brown is in the transfer portal and expected to play elsewhere next season.

Recent Ohio State transfers at the position include Texas starter Quinn Ewers and Joe Burrow, who left for LSU, won the national title and Heisman Trophy and was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 draft.

Because Michigan signed five-star quarterback and No. 1 overall prospect Bryce Underwood away from LSU, the Tigers are back in the transfer market along with Oklahoma.

–Field Level Media

Tavien St. Clair was at Ohio Stadium to watch the Ohio State Buckeyes take on the Michigan Wolverines in an NCAA football game on Saturday Nov. 30, 2024.

Tavien St. Clair leads Ohio State class, joins loaded QB room

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Ohio’s top-rated player, quarterback Tavien St. Clair, signed with Ohio State on Wednesday, giving the Buckeyes a QB room littered with five-star prospects in a loaded 2025 class.

St. Clair is from Bellefontaine, about an hour west of Columbus, and committed to Ohio State on June 21, 2023. Locked in on his home-state school, the only official visit he took was to Columbus.

With Will Howard out of eligibility after this season, the quarterback job at Ohio State is wide open. St. Clair, ranked the No. 3 quarterback in the nation and No. 7 overall player by the 247Sports composite, brings the pedigree for the position.

But so do Julian Sayin and Air Noland, both five-star prospects in the 2024 class who wound up at Ohio State. Sayin committed to Alabama, enrolled there in January, then entered the NCAA transfer portal just nine days later. Noland was ranked the No. 7 QB in the class with Sayin No. 3.

Both players took redshirts this season, though Sayin did appear in three games, completing 5 of 11 pass attempts for 84 yards and a touchdown.

It is widely believed that Sayin has the inside track on the starting job in 2025 and that Noland could enter the transfer portal with four years of eligibility remaining.

Five-star Devin Sanchez, a cornerback from North Shore High School in Houston, also was one of 15 players to sign with the Buckeyes as of early Wednesday. He is the No. 1-rated cornerback and No. 6 overall player in the class, per the 247Sports composite.

–Field Level Media

Sep 10, 2022; Columbus, Ohio, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes helmets before the game against the Arkansas State Red Wolves at Ohio Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Joseph Maiorana-USA TODAY Sports

2024 QB Air Noland commits to Ohio State

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Blue-chip quarterback Air Noland committed to Ohio State’s 2024 class, helping to ease the sting of the decommitment of No. 1 QB Dylan Raiola.

Raiola, from the Phoenix area, pledged to the Buckeyes in May 2022 but backed off seven months later, with Nebraska, Georgia and Southern California the presumed frontrunners to land him.

The 247Sports composite ranks Noland as the No. 8 quarterback and the No. 84 overall player in the 2024 class.

The left-hander, a four-star prospect from Langston Hughes High School in Fairburn, Ga., announced his pick Saturday night, choosing the Buckeyes over finalists Alabama, Arkansas, Clemson, Miami, Oregon and Texas A&M.

“Of course they have a great coaching staff,” Noland told 247Sports about picking Ohio State. “But what stood out to me was the way they prepare their quarterbacks on and off the field, regardless of if he’s reading a coverage or a business opportunity off the field.”

As a junior, he led his high school team to an undefeated season and a state championship, throwing for 4,095 yards and 55 touchdowns, per 247Sports.

Ohio State’s class currently stands No. 4 in the nation in the 247Sports rankings. The nine commitments include a pair of five-star wide receivers, Jeremiah Smith of Hollywood, Fla., and Mylan Graham from New Haven, Ind.

–Field Level Media