Predicting where Caleb Downs, Arvell Reese and other Ohio State Buckeyes will be picked in the 2026 NFL Draft

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🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The 2026 NFL Draft has arrived with a bunch of Ohio State football players expected to be taken over the next three days. That means it's time for our annual Buckeye Talk NFL Draft prediction pod. OSU has nine players in this year's draft and Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis reveal how many of them will hear their names called. 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 Buckeye Talk.
0:33.1	I'm Stephen Means.
0:33.8	That's Stefan Christnick, and that is Andrew Gillis.
0:35.6	Today is the NFL draft.
0:38.4	First round.
0:42.3	I think it starts at like 7 o'clock on a multitude of different channels.
0:47.2	We'll be tuning in and talking with our texter, 614-3-3-3-5-2-week free trial,
0:48.2	29 after that.
0:50.8	And as we do annually, this is our prediction pot.
0:55.7	We are predicting where I think there's like 11 to 15 guys trying to get drafted this year from the oh house a football team we could see a boatload of those go on Thursday and then
1:01.4	a lot of those guys not go again until saturday so as you guys know you guys know we do this
1:06.7	i'm just going to run through teams here's what i'm going to do this because if not it's going to
1:09.7	get mundane i think i am going to do the first round team by team. And then after that, I'm going to do it by like groups of 10 for the second and third round. And then the rounds after that, I think I'm just going to go, does anybody have anybody in this round? Okay, does anybody have anybody in this?
1:28.0	You know, because if not, this is going to be a long podcast and I'm not sure it's going to be a
1:31.1	great lesson. So on the clock first, kicking things off with the number one pick and the 2026
1:37.2	NFL draft of Las Vegas Raiders. Take Fernando Mendoza. What if they took Ty Simpson? It just like
1:41.8	threw everybody's entire board off. They just threw everybody's board off. They just took Ty something. The New York giant, their New York Jets would be thrilled. Yeah. Number two, New York Jets. Number three, Arizona Cardinals. Yeah, I'm in on this one with the car. Okay, okay. I didn't know you wanted to do the thing.
2:02.0	Do do do do.
2:18.4	Oh, no, you don't have to do the noise. You can just like. I know, but I wanted to. Oh, you want, I mean, I don't want to get it. Gillis needs to do it. That was, Andrew wanted to do that. I won't do that for everything. I think the bluster about the Cardinals being like,
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