How is defensive depth chart shaping up for 2025?

Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

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🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State's new defensive coordinator -- whoever that might end up being -- will inherit just three returning starters. Those three players are very good -- Caleb Downs, Davison Igbinosun and Sonny Styles -- but this will be the first time in recent memory that the Buckeyes will have eight new starters on the defensive side of the ball.

What will the depth chart look like for OSU this fall on defense? Dave Biddle and Steve Helwagen delve into that and much more on the Wednesday 5ish.

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0:59.8	2025. I am Dave Biddle, very happy, joined by Steve Hellwagon. Oh, man, we're going to do a deep dive
1:04.9	on the defense, my friends. We're going to look at the projected, our projected depth chart,
1:09.2	at least the starters, for this coming season for the
1:12.9	Buckeyes, the 20-25 season. They'll only have three returning starters on defense. Pretty good
1:18.1	three returning starters with Caleb Downs, IGB, and Sunny Stiles. But I can't remember the last time
1:23.1	Ohio State was breaking in this many new starters on defense, and they'll have a new defensive
1:27.1	coordinator. So we're going to get into all that stuff. And look back, Steve, I'm going to start
1:32.2	right with, because I've talked about the Null stuff a lot. I haven't heard your, really your take on it.
1:37.8	When that went down, when it became official that he's going to Penn State, what was your
1:42.2	reaction? I guess I was kind of surprised. I think most people think of that as kind of a lateral move when you talk about going from Ohio State to Penn State.
1:51.5	And forget the fact, you know, that Ohio State's beating them, you know, seven, eight years in a row.
1:57.1	And what is it? Franklin's one in 10, I guess, against Ohio State.
2:01.2	You'd say it's really not a lateral move, but Penn State was in the college football
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