Julian Sayin, Jeremiah Smith and predicting Ohio State football's 2026 starting offense

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🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Ohio State has turned the page to the next chapter of the Ryan Day era as it prepares for the 2026 season. On this Tuesday episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis project a 2026 offensive depth chart featuring a solid mixture of both returning players and a few new faces. 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 Buck Guy Talk.
0:33.2	I'm Stephen Means.
0:33.9	That's the Fon Christchink, and that is Andrew Gillis.
0:36.1	The portal is close, so you can thank the man above for that. You don't have to worry about that type of news anymore for the next year, because wherever you decided to go with your football life, that's where you're going to be. Granted, I saw somebody who put a stat out there that was like 10,000 plus people on the portal and there were still like 6,000 people who haven't found a home yet.
0:56.7	And listen, that's the realities of it though.
0:58.3	Just because you decide to be unemployed doesn't mean you're going to find employment on the other side of that unemployment line there.
1:04.0	Get the text, 614350, 335.
1:06.7	It should be calmer now.
1:08.0	The only real questions that remain for our house at this point are coaching staff decisions, and that's ongoing. I've said this a couple of times. A reminder that Ryan Day, the news didn't break that he hired Matt Patricia a year ago until February 12th. So at this time last year, we still had no idea who Ohio State's next defensive coordinator is. Granted, we had no idea whether or not
1:28.1	they were national champions either, because for whatever reason, that still doesn't happen until
1:32.2	late January because Monday night they decided the national champion. And we'll discuss that
1:37.3	and other things later this week. Today, though, now that Ohio State's 2026 roster is
1:42.8	officially set in terms of people they might lose, could
1:46.4	they still add some guys? Sure. And I guess we'll discuss that if they do decide to still
1:50.7	add guys after that. But at some point, they have to start the semester. So you can't just
1:55.3	be randomly adding guys after that. But Stefan took the liberty upon himself to take his first
2:00.4	shot, to take our first shot
2:01.7	here at Cleveland.com at projecting what the 2026 depth chart could look like after all
2:06.9	of these changes, they lost 33 guys to the portal and they added 16 at this moment.
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