Michigan Wolverines

Linebacker from Ann Arbor just snubbed Michigan for Ohio State

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 2:30 p.m. ET

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There are still another 11 months until Signing Day 2017 and we normally we take verbal commitments at this time with a big grain of salt, but ... Urban Meyer and Ohio State landed an interesting commitment Tuesday.

Linebacker Antjuan Simmons tweeted out that he wants to be a Buckeye.

Scarlet and Gray!!?????⭕️ #GoBucks pic.twitter.com/lvNLhhc4M3
— antjuan simmons (@_antjuan_) March 1, 2016

Why is this intriguing? Because Simmons is from Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Given the timing, what with the SEC and ACC in an uproar over Jim Harbaugh and Michigan spending Spring Break down south in Florida, it's definitely noteworthy.

Simmons reportedly has 40 scholarship offers, including one from the Wolverines.

"I don't think it's a knock on Michigan, but they were kind of doing their own thing and recruiting whoever they wanted to recruit,” Jari Brown, the linebacker’s high school coach, told cleveland.com during a phone interview shortly after Simmons' commitment. "It just seems to me that there isn't a lot of attention paid to the state of Michigan. You have a kid right across the street, but for whatever reason, they were in contact with him but didn't really recruit him and didn't build the relationship that he felt comfortable with going to the university.

"I think a lot of people thought that because Michigan offer, that he was automatically going to go to Michigan. I told everyone and I knew the whole time that he wanted to go to a place where he felt he built the best relationship with the coaching staff. He just felt really comfortable with Ohio State."