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Son of NFL legend attends Badger football practice

Landon Pace, son of NFL Hall of Famer Orlando Pace and class of 2025 recruit visited Madison on Thursday.

Landon Pace, the son of NFL Hall of Famer Orlando Pace and a class of 2025 recruit, visited Madison on Thursday. The 6-foot-2, 200-pound athlete still has two more years of high school football at St. Louis University before he would make the leap to a collegiate program.

The Badgers offered Pace in January, and he made his official visit this week, bringing his dad with him. His father played 13 seasons in the NFL as an offensive tackle, mostly with the St. Louis Rams, winning a Super Bowl in 1999. He was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 2016.

Landon Pace has received seven Division I offers, including one from his dad’s alma mater, Ohio State. Considering the family connection, Pace seems likely to end up in Columbus, but Luke Fickell spent many years with the Buckeyes and could draw the recruit to Madison.

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Ohio State offers son of OSU legend Orlando Pace

In case you missed it, Ohio State extended an offer to the son of a Buckeye Legend. #GoBucks

Orlando Pace may be the greatest football player in Ohio State history. At the very least, he is the best in a long list of offensive linemen to wear the scarlet and gray. Now his son may look to follow in his footsteps.

Landon Pace is a tight end in the class of 2025. The high school sophomore participated in one of Ohio State’s camps earlier in June and did some on-field work with the Buckeye’s offensive coordinator, Kevin Wilson. Pace did enough to impress Wilson and announced that he had landed an offer courtesy of OSU.

The Pace family resides in St. Louis, Missouri where Orlando spent the bulk of his 13-year NFL career after being the No. 1 overall pick in the 1997 NFL draft by the St. Louis Rams.

Being the son of a legend may not always be the easiest path in life, but it looks like this young man is putting in the work to carve his own way. Of course, having the genes of an NFL hall of fame doesn’t hurt either. His recruitment will be one to keep an eye on for the next few years.

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