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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Evaluating Ohio State's first night of the 2026 NFL Draft

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

For the second straight year, Ohio State has used the NFL Draft to set a new record for the Ryan Day era. The Buckeyes had five players selected in the first round, the most with him as the head coach. On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means and Stefan Krajisnik break down all five picks and why each was so important. 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 Buckeye Talk.

0:33.2

I'm Stephen Means, and that is Stefan Krichnik.

0:35.9

Round one of the NFL draft is hitting its conclusion.

0:39.5

We started recording here around pick 25. We wanted to let Stefan watch the Bears make a pick before we got on here.

0:44.8

So at the time of our starting this recording, Ohio State has four first round draft picks.

0:51.2

Cornell Tate went forth to the Titans of Arise, fifth, to the Giants, Sunny style, seventh

0:57.4

to the commanders and Caleb Downs to the Cowboys.

1:01.9

It's pick 27 right now as we started recording, and we're still waiting to see if Kay to

1:05.8

Midgownell will join them.

1:06.9

So right now, they did get, they did kind of make a record, not really a record, but

1:13.9

it's the most picks that a team has had in the first 11 picks since Michigan State in

1:18.8

1967. They had four top eight picks. Ohio State has four top 11 picks. We're seeing if they're

1:24.6

going to make that five first round draft picks in total.

1:27.7

Right now they are tied with 2024 for the most first round draft picks of the Ryan Day era.

1:33.2

If Kate McDonald was number one at some point, we'll get to that near the end of this podcast here.

1:37.5

But we just want to start in chronological order.

1:40.0

Stefan, when we did our predictions, I'm trying to pull them up here.

1:43.8

This is what happens when you don't happens when you have 30 million tabs up.

1:46.8

You have to find things.

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