Buckeyes healthy entering summer conditioning | Dan's Downs draft dream comes true
Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The media chatted with Ohio State head coach Ryan Day via Zoom Friday afternoon from his home state of New Hampshire and Bucknuts was curious about the status of all of the players who missed all or part of spring ball. Are they are expected to be fully cleared for the start of summer conditioning in two weeks? Day gave a resounding yes, which was obviously music to our ears.
Also, Dan Rubin's draft dream came true when his Dallas Cowboys traded up to land Caleb Downs with the No. 11 pick. Some NFL teams might eventually look very foolish for passing on Downs, but Dan is extremely pleased that they did.
Dan and Dave Biddle also take a look at the rest of the draft from OSU's perspective (Buckeyes led everyone with 11 picks), take a gander at next year's draft class for the Buckeyes (could JJ go No. 1 overall?) and much more. That is coming your way on the Monday 5ish.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Good morning Bucknotters welcome to the Bucknuts Morning 5 here on Monday, April 27, 2026. |
| 0:32.0 | I am Dave Biddle. Very happy, joined by Dan Rubin. I tell you my friend, sometimes dreams do come true. |
| 0:38.9 | Maybe dreams you weren't even dreaming about that much because you thought there's no way this could possibly happen. |
| 0:44.6 | I was saying for the last three months until the Dexter Lawrence trade happened, man, be great of Caleb Downs, slipped to the Bengals and they took him at 10. |
| 0:51.5 | Never thought he'd slip to 11 and then the dolphins would trade to Dan |
| 0:54.8 | Rubin's Cowboys and Land Caleb Downs. I'm happy for you, man. I'm happy for you. I'm happy for you. |
| 1:02.3 | I'm happy for me. I'm sure you're happy for you. You really did nail it, though, in the intro there. |
| 1:11.4 | I have infected both of my sons with the Cowboys' Allegiance Curse |
| 1:17.2 | and had said before the draft, |
| 1:20.4 | there was one mock draft that had the Cowboys getting Caleb Downs and Malachi Lawrence, |
| 1:24.5 | and I sent it to my son saying, this is the ideal. |
| 1:27.4 | And what I got back was a |
| 1:28.7 | collection of dad come on get with it we are not getting Caleb Downs and that's what it kept |
| 1:35.7 | saying and then it started to like it was weird carnell getting picked where he was I don't think |
| 1:41.3 | I had heard that so that kind of set things off. |
| 1:52.2 | And Dave, I have to say, the general consensus among Cowboys cognoscentes, this would not have happened had your Bengals not traded Lawrence for Lawrence because you would have taken them |
| 2:00.4 | or something like that. So it was just... I'm not convinced they would have taken them or something like that. |
| 2:02.1 | So it was just. |
| 2:03.2 | I'm not convinced they would have. |
| 2:04.5 | I think there's a lot of smoke they would have taken Ruben Bain there. |
| 2:07.9 | Well. |
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