Marietta’s Trey Sermon announces transfer to Ohio State

Running back Trey Sermon (4) committed to Oklahoma, even as he was recruited by Georgia.

Credit: Hyosub Shin

Credit: Hyosub Shin

Running back Trey Sermon (4) committed to Oklahoma, even as he was recruited by Georgia.

Former Oklahoma running back Trey Sermon, of Marietta, has committed to Ohio State.

The 6-foot, 221-pound Sermon announced March 14 in a tweet that he was entering the portal as a graduate transfer.

With another tweet Sunday, the former rusher at Sprayberry, announced he would join another Georgian — quarterback Justin Fields — as a Buckeye in Columbus, Ohio.

Sermon ran for 744 yards as a freshman in 2017 and 947 as a sophomore. He carried the ball twice for 34 yards, one a 31-yarder, against Georgia in the Rose Bowl.

But Sermon played less in 2019 and suffered a knee injury and finished with just 54 carries for 385 yards and four touchdowns.