Hankton to play deeper WR rotation at OSU? | Brock Boyd buzz | Royal moving on
Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
One-third of spring practice is now in the books for Ohio State and we have already gleaned several interesting things about the 2026 Buckeyes. It is also "introductory press conference" season as the media interviewed offensive coordinator Arthur Smith for the first time last Tuesday, defensive tackle James Smith on Thursday and wide receivers coach Cortez Hankton on Saturday.
Will Hankton play a deeper rotation of wideouts for the Buckeyes compared to his predecessor, Brian Hartline?
Also, there is a true freshman WR who is receiving a lot of buzz. And you might not be able to guess who it is, if we didn't use his name in the title of today's show.
Dave Biddle and Dan Rubin have that and much more coming your way on the Monday 5ish.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Good morning Bucknutters. |
| 0:27.6 | Welcome to the Bucknutt's Morning 5 here on Monday, March 30th, 2026. |
| 0:32.1 | I am Dave Biddle, very happy to be joined by Dan Rubin. |
| 0:35.3 | A lot to get into. |
| 0:36.8 | Buckheads are already one-third of the way through spring ball. They resume tomorrow with practice number six. We're getting Ryan Day after practice, and I believe some coaches and players, I'll have to double-check that, but we'll talk with Coach Day tomorrow after the sixth practice of spring. It flies by, man. And what I'm calling this, Dan, is introductory press conference season. |
| 0:56.8 | Every spring is a little bit like that. |
| 1:01.5 | This is like that on steroids, cream and clear, everything they had at Balco. |
| 1:02.7 | Just throw it all in there. |
| 1:04.0 | Throw it all in a blender. Because you have, everybody's thrown the number around 51 new players. |
| 1:08.7 | Okay. |
| 1:09.0 | And that includes walk-ons. |
| 1:10.0 | There's 43 new scholarship players. |
| 1:12.8 | Just new players alone, 43 new scholarship players, a bunch of new coaches. |
| 1:17.5 | Since you and I did the show last Monday, Dan, we had our introductory press conference |
| 1:21.6 | with Art Smith on Tuesday. |
| 1:23.6 | Fantastic. |
| 1:24.4 | We had our introductory press conference with James Smith on Thursday. We'll get to |
| 1:29.9 | him in a second. And then Saturday, we had our introductory press conference with wide |
| 1:34.4 | receivers coach Cortez Hankton. And he was extremely impressive. All those guys were impressive. |
| 1:40.0 | Before we get to, I do want to talk a lot about Cortez and the wide receivers on today's show. |
| 1:46.1 | Let me ask you this. |
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