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Welcome back to Buckeye Talk. I'm Nathan Beard from Cleveland.com along with Stephen Means here with BFF Buckeye football futures.

It's Thursday on the podcast and it's been a couple days since we recorded one Stephen. I feel like things were getting a little rowdy earlier this week for people who've been listening to Buckeye Talk all week.

I thought some unhinged podcasts earlier this week. I hope people got a kick out of them because I thought they were really fun.

And we're not bringing things back to a serious place today because it's recruiting. It's going to be a little bit wild just by its nature.

But Doug's not here. So it would just be the two of us kind of mixing it up as opposed to introducing that kind of wild card element.

But you've been out at the day camps all week. I should say Tuesday, Wednesday, recording this Wednesday afternoon.

And I thought we would just kind of knock through for people who've been getting a text 614-350-3315.

You've been giving good updates about pretty much every major prospect that you see out there. Things that catch your eye. That sort of thing.

So we're going to go through. I basically went made a list of 10 guys that you've talked about in the last two days.

And I wanted to ask another question about those guys. So something I didn't see in the text. I'm going to follow up and ask you something else.

So our readers are getting twice as much intel out of you're having been there the last few days.

But I wanted to start with something else you brought up right before we got on because there's something people need to have maybe on their at the front of their minds instead of something keeping in the back of their minds with these 2023 guys.

And we want to talk about we're afraid of I bar tell people who he is and tell people why it might be a more urgent topic of conversation around Ohio State football in the near future.

So as of right now officially he is a 2022 prospect out of Connecticut.

So the number one 63 player in the country and the number nine edge russia in the country is what they're being classified as right now.

It's no longer weak side defensive and strong side defensive and defensive tackle. It's now defensive lineman or edge russia.

That's how two four seven sports is defining it, which is actually better because basically regardless of if you're at a three four or four.

There's two defensive lineman two defensive ends on the field.

And then the defensive lineman can mean your interior guy, whether you're a three-tacker, you're a nose tackle, depending on what your front is and what scheme you're in.

Well, he's had an offer. He had an offer last spring from Ohio State. He's been on their radar as a guy to watch in 2022 as a potential defensive line addition.

It could be reclassified in the 2021 any and scheduled some official visit. He was on.

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