Could Buckeyes add corner from portal?

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🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Cornerback Akayleb Evans from Tulsa has entered the transfer portal and has received offers from Texas, Notre Dame, Nebraska and others. Could Ohio State be interested?

Matt Baxendell joins Dave Biddle for the Wednesday 5ish to discuss that, expectations for Zach Harrison in 2021, expectations for Jaxon Smith-Njigba and more.

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0:00.0	Good morning, Bucknotters. Welcome to the Buck Nuts Morning 5 here on
0:29.8	Wednesday, May 19th, 2021. I am Dave Biddle. I'm joined by Matt Baxendale.
0:34.3	Back's right at the top here. There is a corner in the transfer portal named
0:38.6	Akaleb Evans. He's from Tulsa, who Ohio State will actually play this season
0:43.3	Tulsa. Akaleb Evans six foot two one hundred and eighty eight pounds. He has
0:47.6	offers from Texas, Notre Dame, Nebraska, and others. Ohio State has not offered
0:52.6	him backs, but Tony offered is now following him on Twitter. Maybe that's a
0:57.5	precursor to the buck eyes offering. We shall see and I don't think Akaleb Evans
1:01.2	would come right in and start at Ohio State, but they need depth at corner.
1:04.5	And who knows? Maybe he would start. He'd grade it out pretty high by Prof.
1:08.0	Ball focus last year. What are your thoughts on this development? You think Ohio State
1:11.4	should be interested? Will they be interested in Akaleb Evans backs?
1:15.1	Well, he's six foot two. So that's a pretty good start for a corner back. He's
1:18.7	already played at the college football level. The kid was a part of the class of 2017.
1:23.4	He was like, he's rated like 0.79 to recruit. Was a decommit from Kansas and
1:29.7	ended up at Tulsa. And now it seems like most of the big boys are after him.
1:33.4	I think it's telling that I was trying to recruit some depth at corner,
1:38.2	which I think we, as we talked about last week in this space,
1:41.5	they have a lot of unproven players. So maybe this is more of a
1:47.6	consistent option for the ring end to think maybe there could be some potential
1:53.4	here. Reality is if Texas and Notre Dame and everybody else is interested in them,
1:58.0	then I guess the Ohio State's not too far off their liquor here
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