Kenyatta Jackson, Devin Sanchez and predicting Ohio State football's 2026 starting defense

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 76 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 Wednesday episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis project a 2026 defensive 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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1:21.3	Hey, hey, hey, come on in. Welcome back to Bucketalk. I'm Stephen Means. That's Stefan Christnick, and this is Andrew Gillis.
1:36.5	And this is day two of our 2026 Ohio State DefT chart projection. We yesterday, we did the offensive side.
1:42.4	Today, we'll do the defensive side
1:44.4	where there's a bunch of new names, 33 players overall in the portal.
1:48.2	14 subtractions and 10 additions for the defense. So this is where there's a significant
1:54.4	amount of new names in comparison to how many there were on the offensive end. And that's
1:58.8	at all three levels, Stefan. Ohio State lost eight starters on defense after winning a national title in 2024.
2:06.9	They're losing a lot more than that, heading in the 2026 after a 2025 season, where they
2:12.4	had historically one of the best defenses we have ever seen. Four yards per play allowed.
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