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DB Shaw getting nation-wide interest - ESPN

Palmdale (Calif.) defensive back Joshua Shaw has emerged as one of the nation's top cover corners this spring and summer. The athlete is planning to unofficially visit two of his favorites in August and is close to finalizing three of his official visits as well.

Shaw might be the most physical cornerback in the West region. He had a dominant showing at the NIKE Camp at Stanford and used his big body, 6-2, 180 pounds, to manhandle opposing receivers at the line of scrimmage.

He's now holding scholarship offers from just about every top program in the nation and his list of favorites continues to change almost weekly.

"Ohio State is my most recent offer and I'm very interested in them right now," Shaw said. "Right now, I'm planning to take an unofficial visit to Ohio State and Notre Dame the same weekend in August.

"I don't have the exact dates but I'm going to fly in to South Bend one morning, spend the day there and then drive to Columbus the next day and then fly home out of Columbus. I'm going to officially visit both schools as well and those visits will both be when they play USC."

Ohio State will take on USC (Sept. 12) and Notre Dame will host the Trojans (Oct. 17). A trip to LSU is also close to be finalized.

"LSU is going to offer me and I'm going to lock in my visit with them as soon as they do," Shaw said. "I'm looking to visit the weekend they play Florida (Oct. 10) and that's all I have set right now.

"I'm definitely going to take all five visits and they'll all be to out of state schools. Locally, I like USC and UCLA a lot but I can just use an unofficial visit for each of them. I'm going to unofficially visit Washington in the fall as well and then Oklahoma, and Tennessee are a few more schools I may take my last visits to.

"I plan to graduate early and have my decision made in December so I need to take all my trips during the season. That's actually a good thing because I want to see what the game atmosphere is like at all the schools I'm looking at. Right now, I don't really have a top five anymore. Every day it changes for me so for now on, I'm just going to list a bunch of schools I like rather than single out five, it will just make it easier for me."