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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

9 former Ohio State football players who could help its 2026 roster

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis use former Ohio State players now in the NFL to discuss the 2026 roster.   Each person will draft three different players from OSU's past that they think could help the team this upcoming seaon if you could put them back in college football. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk and sign up to get text messages from experts Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis at 614-350-3315. Get the insider analysis, have your voice heard on the Buckeye Talk podcast and connect with the best Buckeye community out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, where you've been?

0:17.7

Bucket talk is about to begin.

0:21.1

Hey, hey, hey, come on, man.

0:31.9

Welcome back to Bucket Talk. I'm Stephen Means.

0:33.9

That's Defauchin.

0:34.9

And that is Andrew Gillis.

0:36.0

The Super Bowl is on Sunday. Super Bowl 60th Super Bowl ever. I like that they've kept up with the Roman numeral thing. I hope that never goes away except for the Super Bowl 50 when they just did the 50, which I didn't like. But also that's just because it would have been Super Bowl L, which, I mean, we're all childish. So we're like, oh, it's an L of a Super Bowl. But anyway, Super Bowl Sunday is upcoming this week. And so we're going to do an NFL-focused pod for your Thursday pod, last pod of this week. We're actually doing something pretty fun for the Monday pod. I'll tune in for that. I think that'll be fun. We are picking players who are former Buckeyes, who are currently in the NFL, who we think could help the 2026. But guys, it's just a fun way to talk about where we think some of the weeks about to know how state's team might be in 2026. There were 57 players who made 53 man rosters at the beginning of this year.

1:29.2

I also asked our text, there's 614350-5315, which players would you add?

1:33.8

We got 21 different players plus Burrow.

1:39.2

And like, Burrow does not, I mean, our Texters can do whatever they want, but you two obviously

1:43.4

know that we could not put Joe Pearl in this instance.

1:45.6

This is about people who went from Ohio State directly to the NFL without any detours.

1:50.4

So players like Joe Burrow,

1:51.6

players like Jamison Williams are not included in this.

1:54.7

The only rules I gave Stefan and Gillis were that we had to have some players.

1:59.2

I didn't give them any other rules on purpose

2:01.6

because I want to see what their reaction is once they start hearing these rules in terms of how they go about doing things because we're going to be competitive with this. So here are the rules. You have to pick one guy on offense, one guy on defense, and then you get one wild card. It can be either side of the ball. Once a guy is taken off the board, you can't take them anymore.

2:20.3

This is not going to be a situation where defense and then you get one wild card it can be either side of the ball once a guy is taken off

2:18.1

the board you can't take him anymore this is not going to be a situation where one person says oh they

2:23.0

want thayer munfer it's like hey i had him as my guy to no no no no no and you have to have a

2:29.2

legit football reason for why you would put him in there and then how he would work within the

2:34.5

26 roster like within the depth chart how would he be used so we can't we're going to have like

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