Caleb Downs, Malik Hartford and the expectations for Ohio State football’s 2025 safeties and beyond

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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Football, Sports

4.2 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The 2025 season is right around the corner as Ohio State enters a new chapter of the Ryan Day era. It’s the perfect time to look at where the program is from a bird’s eye view now that the title of ‘National Champion’ is added to this regime’s resume. In doing so, we at Buckeye Talk will spend the next two weeks breaking down the program position by position, examining its past, present and future under Day. On today’s episode, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis discuss safety. 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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1:31.8	I'm Stephen Means, and that's Stefan Kreisig, and that is Andrew Gillis.
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1:39.8	Our state of the program series, breaking down position by position, the Ohio State
1:43.9	Football roster and the Ohio State football roster
1:44.7	and the Ohio State football program, 2025 and beyond. We have made it to our final position group.
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