Ohio State's lingering offensive line question and a 5-star who's ready to breakout

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🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Ohio State is nearing the end of spring practice, with two position groups stepping to the mic to provide updates on two important questions What will OSU do on its offensive line? Is Eddrick Houston ready to finally be the star defensive lineman OSU always thought he could be?' On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis discuss the answers to those questions and everything else they learned. 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 Bucket Talk.
0:33.2	I'm Stephen Means.
0:34.1	That's Stefan Christnick, and that is Andrew Gillis.
0:36.9	After practice, 13, off the top, Chris Henry Jr. lost his black stripe. Before we get into what we talk, we talked with offensive linemen and defensive linemen today. I do think it's a big, like Christian, Jr. losing his black stripes, a pretty big deal, though, Stefan. Like, that's, he's the second freshman joining Brock Boy to do so. And I think if you were a fan that was maybe a little bit more like, hey, how's this dude that like almost gave us all a heart attack on signing day doing?
1:01.9	I think it's a good sign that Chris Henry Jr. lost his black striped in the spring.
1:06.0	Yeah, definitely. I think our texters would share that sentiment.
1:09.2	I did. We do it every week during the season.
1:12.9	I'm sparsely kind of every now and then during the off season where we'll do our
1:16.1	Hey, stuff on post.
1:17.2	As you're listening to this on Thursday, that's live on our site, Cleveland.com slash OSU
1:21.2	where we have textures submit questions.
1:23.4	And one of the most pressing questions that we got, I got pretty often was about
1:27.4	Chris Henry Jr.
1:28.1	Why he hasn't lost his black stripe yet? Kind of just shrug your shoulders. Like, I'm not really sure why he hasn't lost his black stripe yet because it sounds like he's doing well in practice and kind of just going through the motions of being a freshman at Ohio State. But now it's it's officially removed that that conversation is gone. And yeah, it's it's obviously a big step in him
1:45.3	becoming you know officially a buck eye and being someone who can contribute to this team I think we all
1:49.9	think in some capacity he's going to have a big role for Ohio State in 2026 what that looks like
1:54.9	exactly we'll see but I think entering the spring game there's a lot of people curious about what
1:59.3	he's going to look like and for him to get his black striper move, I'm sure it's a bit of a vote of confidence for him
2:04.9	and mentally probably a good thing for him.
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