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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Ohio State’s found a new way to dominate on the recruiting trail

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Football, Sports

4.21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State continues to stay busy on the recruiting trail, adding six players across two different classes over the past two weeks. On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means and Andrew Gillis break down the additions of cornerback Jay Timmons, offensive lineman Mason Wilhelm, tight end Nick Lautar and defensive linemen Emmanuel Ruffin and Dre Quinn. Plus, 2027 safety Eli Johnson. They discuss what they right to their respective class, what their additions mean and whether the Buckeyes are done adding guys before Signing Day. 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.

0:33.8

Welcome back to Buckeye Talk.

0:35.5

I'm Stephen Means, and that's Andrew Gillis.

0:37.8

And it's another recruiting pod coming your way because Ohio State has been busy, busy, busy, two, four. Six different kids have committed

0:45.7

to Ohio State across two different recruiting classes since the last time we talked about

0:51.0

Ohio State's recruiting efforts. They have a recruiting class that is now up to 27 commits. Ranked sixth nationally. I think they're going to end up with a top five class, just because they're going to have the total volume necessary to do that. This is going to be the biggest class Ohio State's had in the Rye and Day era. They had a big one in 2020 when they have like 25 kids. They've already surpassed that. Again, 6, 26, 27 commitments, number 6 class in the country.

1:13.5

And it's highlighted, obviously, by Chris Henry Jr., the five-star wide receiver.

1:16.7

And then Blaine Bradford, who, according to the composite, isn't a five-star recruit anymore.

1:21.7

That's crazy.

1:22.6

I saw that kid in person on Saturday.

1:24.7

That kid looks like a five-star safety.

1:26.8

He literally looked like Caleb

1:28.0

Downs as an 18-year-old kid. So let's, let's fix that. But, you know, let's, we're just

1:32.7

going to go in order of the six guys who committed. Let's start in the 2026 class. Ohio State's

1:37.5

found another cornerback. Jay Timmons, number 136 player, number 17 corner out of Pennsylvania.

1:43.6

I under, to my understanding, he was committed to Florida State at one point. His dad is a former stealer. So there's some pedigree here. Tell us about Jay Timmons. Yeah, I really like this kid. You know, he's really athletic. You know, I was watching him on kind of his huddle tape. And obviously, you know, I don't have the scouting eye that Tim Walton or Matt Patricia or any of these people have. But to me, I saw Jermaine Matthews.

2:07.3

When I watched this kid play, he's 5'11, he's 185 pounds. I think you can very much see him playing

2:13.8

in a slot role at Ohio State. I think you could see him playing outside. You mentioned,

2:19.3

you know, the NFL pedigree, the NFL background there. I love this athlete in terms of just

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