Ohio State’s historical NFL Draft run and an interesting hypothetical

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🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State set a new record for the Ryan Day era in the 2025 NFL Draft with four players selected in the first round, the most with him as the head coach. In a year where OSU hopes to make draft history coming off a national title, it got off to a good start on Day 1 with Emeka Egbuka, Donovan Jackson, Tyleik Williams and Josh Simmons hearing their names called. All four represent something important for the program under Day. On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means and Stefan Krajisnik break down all four picks while also posing an interesting question about its choice at quarterback in 2024. 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.
0:34.1	Welcome back to Buckeye Talk.
0:34.9	I'm Stephen Baines. We're just going to act like we haven't been live here already for about three minutes there and just act like we're starting from
0:40.9	scratch. Ohio State. First night of the NFL draft is complete Ohio State with four guys
0:47.1	drafted a Mecca, Bucca 19th to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Donovan Jackson 24th to the Minnesota
0:53.3	Vikings, Thailand, Tileague Williams, 28th to the Detroit Lions, which I think is pretty funny, because
0:59.2	it feels like Michigan and Ohio State just traded a player states to the perspective
1:04.8	NFL teams.
1:05.9	And then Josh Simmons closes out the first round going 32nd to the Kansas City Chiefs.
1:11.1	That is officially the most NFL draft picks to go on the first round of the Ryan Day era.
1:16.9	It surpasses the 2020 draft class.
1:18.9	I've had Chase Young, Jeff Okud and Damon Arnett all go on the first round.
1:22.1	And then in 2023, C.J. Straub, Paris Johnson, and Jackson Smith, the Jigba, all went in the first round.
1:27.9	It's actually the second most, it's the most actually since 2016 when they had five guys,
1:33.0	Joey Bosa, Ezekiel Elliott, Eli Apple, Taylor Decker, and Darren Lee, all going the first
1:38.6	round.
1:39.0	Get the text, 614-350-0-3-3-1-5, two-week free trial, 399 after that.
1:45.7	I was just sending texts left and right all night.
1:48.7	They weren't all the most newsy texts.
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