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I am Stephen Kriesnick, and that is Andrew Gillis.

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And this pod is essentially based off of a story that I didn't realize Stefan was going to write the story when I decided to make this a pop, but I guess it kind of works out that he was going to do this when I told them we were going to do this. We're looking forward. What we've typically done in the past is we have centered the idea around this pod to be third year guys. You know, the idea of like Marshawn Latimore, Mar uh, Malik Hooker, the guys who maybe haven't

necessarily had big time rules yet, maybe be, might be on the verge of a breakout season going

into their third year here like those who did, like we saw with Arvel Reese and Cade McDonald

this past year. But the problem is, you can't really do that with third year guys when all

the guys that would have been candidates for this award are now playing for other football teams right this would have been an interesting conversation

about Aaron Scott maybe like a myelin graham situation but you can't really talk about those

guys when they play for Oregon and Notre Dame anymore so we're just opening up the floodgates

to include practically anybody you want to include and it's got to be someone who's not already established guy. We're going to go with two each. We both have a list. All three of us have a list and maybe we have some overlap and some of our list, but we're going to give two each. Stefan, let's start with you since you're the one who actually did it for the site. Number one breakout candidate in 2026 for the Ohio State Buckeyes.

Yeah, for me, the guy that I've kind of harped on this offseason, what I think he can do for Ohio State is Zion Grady, defensive end. And I think that there is an opportunity, certainly from to start. We did our Deb chart, you know, discussions earlier this week or last week, whenever it was,

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