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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Caleb Downs, Max Kare and evaluating Ohio State’s safety and tight end rooms

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis evaluate Ohio State's tight end and safety position groups. 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.

0:32.4

Welcome back to Buckeye Talk.

0:33.7

I'm Stephen Krasnick, and that is Andrew Gillis,

0:37.2

as we continue our position into the year reviews. If you listen to the wide receiver one, there were some things in it that I thought were very great with the wide receivers and the cornerbacks one. But there were also some things where it's like immediately just like don't listen to that part of it. We did it. Listen, we said a couple of times, listen, we're recording these in the middle of the day. So if things happen after we record this, we'll get to it the next day. We recorded that well before Quincy Porter and that news had dropped. So any conversation about Quincy Porter and that podcast is now mute. But though, we did talk about the fact that they might bring some guys in from the portal anyway, so it's still okay. It's okay.

1:11.3

This is what happens when there's a transfer portal window.

1:14.3

What is it?

1:14.8

17 days long and random things are happening in the sport.

1:18.1

But we continue on with our positional reviews.

1:20.9

Today we're doing tight ends and we're doing safeties.

1:23.6

And we're starting with the tight end position where it was the year of the tight-in, Stefan.

1:28.3

What a year it was for the tight-in.

1:31.4

They had five guys who played at least 130 snaps this season.

1:37.1

Will Casmaric led that charge playing 509.

1:40.4

Max Clare, the Purdue transfer, 488.

1:43.9

Bennett Christian, five, Nate Roberts, the true freshman,

1:47.2

160. And I would say about 55 of those snaps came while playing fullback, which is what is

1:53.3

Andrew Gillis's dream for a titan is to play fullback. And then Jolani Thurman, who is now off

1:59.5

into the portal, played 135 snaps this past season.

2:03.8

Brody Lennon and Max Leblanc were also in the room.

2:07.3

Brody Lennon played six snaps this year.

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