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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Ohio State NFL Draft wrap: Surprises, sure things, and where a talent dip showed up

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The 2023 NFL Draft is over, and on this Buckeye Talk episode, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means wrap up the final picks for Ohio State after three Buckeyes went in the first round, which was covered on the Friday pod. This is your Monday episode, but it's dropping early on Sunday, and it covers the final three OSU picks: (0:30) Final draft numbers for the Buckeyes and the Big Ten (12:41) Zach Harrison going in Round 3 to Atlanta (18:38) Dawand Jones heading to the Browns in Round 4 (38:11) Luke Wypler also going to Cleveland in Round 6 (57:13) A final run through the undrafted Buckeyes Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, where you been, but got talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in.

0:25.6

Welcome back to your Monday Sunday, Buckeye Tug, Doug Lamarice, wrapping up the NFL draft for the Ohio State Buckeyes, Nathan and Steven.

0:31.7

It's Nathan Barrett and Steven Means will be along shortly. We already gave you what happened in round one, one, three Buckeyes went only three more Buckeyes drafted after that.

0:41.6

Zach Harrison in round three, Dwan Jones in round four, and Luke Whippler in round six. That six Buckeyes drafted.

0:51.6

They also had six drafted last year. So this is a little bit of a dip. The previous years for Ohio State, we're going to run through some numbers here.

1:00.6

Then Nathan and Steven, I dig in deep on Zach Harrison to the Atlanta Falcons on Dwan Jones and Luke Whippler, both kind of crazily to the Cleveland Browse, and then I'll come back at the end and I'll wrap up some of the guys who didn't get picked.

1:14.6

But I want to put this in context because this wasn't excellent draft for the Big Ten. So excellent. I'm not sure why they're not trumpeting it.

1:24.6

I don't know what the Big Ten does sometimes. I feel like sometimes all they care about is TV contracts and chemistry labs. And sometimes I feel like I should be their director of talking about football.

1:35.6

We already do their preseason pole for them because they're incompetent and unwilling to do that. So maybe I should put out a press release for the Big Ten.

1:43.6

I think it's possible. This is the most big 10 draft picks ever. And if you've seen that information somewhere great, because I certainly can't find it.

1:52.6

I certainly as heck didn't find on the Big Ten website. They had 55 draft picks. The Big Ten did in this draft. Now that's second to the SEC, but that's a strong second to the SEC.

2:04.6

And they often are not a strong second in that category. The SEC had 62 picks this year. The Big Ten had 55.

2:13.6

I'm going to give you a little context here. Last year it was 6548. So the first number is SEC overall picks. The second number is Big Ten overall picks.

2:22.6

This year is 6255. Last year is 6548. 2021, 6544, 2020, 6348, 2019, 6440, 2018, 5333, 2017, 5335, 2016 was close. 51, 47, 2015, 54, 35, 2014, 49, 30, 2013.

2:46.6

Which I mentioned in another capacity at the first round, 63 to 22. In 2013, the SEC almost tripled the Big Ten's total draft picks. Now it's only seven apart. It's 6255.

3:00.6

55 is the most that I can find going back 20 years. The Big Ten run it through quick, right? It's just numbers. 2004, 44.

3:10.6

Now I'm going to give you the last 20 years of Big Ten overall draft picks. 44, 30, 41, 32, 28, 28, 34, 29, 41, 22, 30, 35, 47, and 2016. That's the huge Ohio State Group, 12 picks from Ohio State.

3:27.6

35, 33, 40, 48, 44, 48, 55. This is a great draft for the Big Ten. It is not a great draft, not a great deep draft for Ohio State.

3:39.6

Which it means even more for the Big Ten that the Ohio State picks didn't have to completely carry the load. And there is a main point I want to get to in a second.

3:47.6

But everybody from the Big Ten had someone picked except Indiana, which is why Tom Allen probably needs to be fired.

3:53.6

But like a good hearty round the picks and Michigan actually led the way. Michigan had nine.

4:00.6

Penn State, Ohio State was six each. Maryland and Purdue, five each. Illinois, Northwestern Iowa, four each.

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