Is Ohio State's tight end room the most important offensive position in 2025?

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🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Ohio State might have the deepest tight end room it's had in quite some time, so what does that mean for how it'll be used? OSU feels it has at least four guys who are game-ready, sparking a debate about the position's value in this offense. Could there be a case that this is the most important room on the offense, given all it's asked to do and all the players capable of doing it? On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis discuss the position group and their potential impact in 2025. 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,
0:17.1	Buckeye talk is about to begin.
0:20.5	Hey, hey, hey, come on in. Ben, Buckeye Talk is about to begin.
0:24.9	Hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:33.2	Welcome back to Buckeye Talk.
0:34.0	I'm Stephen Means.
0:36.2	That's Tafon Christnick, and that is Andrew Gillis.
0:59.1	And Fall Camp is officially over for us as journalists. Fall camp ended for Ohio State on Saturday when it announces captains and had their second scrimmage and then picked the starting quarterback that Monday. They're in full Texas prep now. But we are fall camp ends when we're done talking to individual position groups, because now we're not going to talk to the assistant coaches for a while who are not coordinators. We are fully in Texas mode and we close things out with the tight-in group where I am going to spend the next 45 minutes of your life trying to make
1:05.9	the best case I can make for why the tight-in room is actually Ohio State's best position room in 20, 25.
1:15.4	And Stefan thinks I'm crazy.
1:17.2	Andrew probably thinks I'm crazy because I've been a wide receiver guy for as long as he's
1:21.1	been on this beat, and yet here I am going anti-wide receiver.
1:24.1	So let's talk good about the tight-end room.
1:26.1	What do we like about the tight-end room?
1:27.4	What do we like about what Max Claire and Kenan Bailey and Bennett Christian and Will Casimir had to say about what the vision is for what the tight end room can look like in 2025? We'll start there and then we'll get after the break and to me proving to you guys why this is the best room on the roster. I think probably the first thing that you like is the versatility of the room.
1:45.9	You know, it's, I mean, it's basically like you open up the fridge and you've got a bunch of
1:52.2	different dinner options and they're all pretty good, right?
1:55.9	Like, you've got some versatility there.
1:58.1	I mean, again, like I said this on our video i'm sure there's
2:02.5	somebody out there going actually our tight end at iowa state or our our tight end at you know north
2:08.6	carolina is the best receiving tight end or the best blocking tight end but it's not crazy for keenan
2:13.8	bailey to come out and say mac claire's the best receiving tight end in college football will
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