Five-Star 2025 Safety Jontae Gilbert Decommits From Ohio State

Ohio State lost its lone defensive commitment in the 2025 recruiting class, one of the nation’s best junior safeties.

Atlanta Douglass five-star safety Jontae Gilbert (6-1, 175) announced via Twitter Saturday that he’d be reopening his recruitment a year to the day after he committed to the Buckeyes.

BREAKING: Elite 2025 Safety Jontae Gilbert tells me he has Decommitted from Ohio State

The 6’1 185 S from Atlanta, GA had been Committed to the Buckeyes since July 2022

He is ranked as a Top 35 Player in the ‘25 Class (No. 3 S)https://t.co/WSIPDgRqvY pic.twitter.com/IINJZV8WuD

— Hayes Fawcett (@Hayesfawcett3) July 30, 2023

Gilbert is the No. 25 prospect in the 2025 class per the 247Sports composite rankings, the nation’s No. 2 safety and the sixth-best prospect out of Georgia.

He originally pledged his services to the Buckeyes on July 29, 2022, nearly 11 months prior to Ohio State’s second — and now only — pledge in the class of 2025 joined the fold, that being Bellefontaine, Ohio four-star quarterback Tavien St. Clair (6-4, 210).

South Carolina appears to be a leader for Gilbert’s services, as he recently took a trip to Columbia, S.C. for a visit there, as well as Georgia Tech.