How deep is Ohio State’s 2026 roster?

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🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Depth has become a buzzword in college football as a way to describe how you feel about a position room, but does it actually apply to Ohio State in 2026? On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis dive into the 2026 roster, discussing just how deep each position is by looking at who they think will play meaningful snaps this season. The goal is figuring out if that buzzword is actually a strength for OSU in 2026. 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.
0:32.0	Welcome back to Buck I Talk.
0:33.5	My name is Stephen Kreis.
0:34.7	Their names are Stefan Christick and Andrew Gillis.
0:37.2	And this is a Tuesday, Buck I Talk as you're listening to this we are back in the woody last week was busy man i feel like we were in the woody every day last week we're not going to be in the woody every day this week but this is my favorite week of the year because at the end of the road is the student appreciation day practice where we get to see everything you could possibly dream and your
0:55.1	heart's desire could see. But that's later this week. We'll be talking to Ryan Day today as you're
0:59.5	listening to this podcast later this afternoon. But I wanted to play a game with Stefan and Gillis today.
1:05.0	Well, it's not a game. It's more of a, it's an interesting way to have a discussion about Ohio
1:08.6	State's death because I feel like that's been the conversation of last year they had like these dudes who just never came off of the field
1:16.8	and those dudes are now going to be first round draft picks in the NFL draft and it seems like
1:21.5	they've traded in dude who never has to come off the field with a lot of experience depth at a lot of different
1:29.3	position groups. And so the game of the game is how deep is Ohio State's 26 roster really?
1:35.7	And we're literally just going to go position group by position group today and have a conversation
1:39.5	where essentially we're going to ask a question, how many guys do we expect to play football
1:42.7	for Ohio State? And not just like take a snap, but I mean meaningful.
1:47.3	I'm going to have a role guys on this team.
1:50.5	And we can start at quarterback because it is the shortest conversation you could possibly have.
1:56.5	Barring injury, do we see another quarterback other than Julian Sand taking a meaningful snap in
2:06.1	2026? I think the answer is no. I just, I don't see a world in which there's any sort of, you know,
2:11.5	kind of a special package like we saw with leaking Hino's last year, right? I just, I don't see that.
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