Dickerson told Eleven Warriors on Sunday that Ohio State sees him as a good fit in its program.
“They see me as strictly a corner,” Dickerson said. “I would say I’m a fast, long corner that can play all over the field and willing to cover anyone. Physical also. I think press coverage is probably my best coverage, I like press more than anything else.”
Dickerson was originally recruited by Jeff Hafley and had a good relationship with defensive quality control coach Matt Thurin. but now that both Hafley and Thurin are at Boston College, special teams coordinator/assistant secondary coach Matt Barnes has taken over as his lead recruiter.
“Coach Barnes, I have a good relationship with,” Dickerson said. “He is a good person. He taught me just things about their program defenses and everything like that. He just talked to me (about) how they run everything – all there defensive calls and why they do certain things.”
The next step for Dickerson will be to speak with Coombs and eventually meet him. They have not talked yet, which might be an indicator that Dickerson is lower on the board than Johnson, Grimes and Hancock – and perhaps Turrentine – since, again, those were the first corners Coombs visited when he only had 11 or 12 days left of the contact period by the time he was officially hired.
The first time Dickerson meets Coombs in person could come in the next couple of months.
“Next time I visit Ohio State will probably be a visit possibly in the spring,” said Dickerson, who received an offer after an Ohio State camp in June and whose only visit to campus since then came in late December when the vast majority of coaches and players were in Arizona for the College Football Playoff. “Not sure when and where yet, but I’m planning on taking some official visits in the spring and summer.”
