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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Ranking Ohio State football’s 9 best future NFL Draft prospects

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State's program is littered with future NFL prospects, whether they’re people who just left, are still in the building, or are coming in the near future. But which one is the best of them all? On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis search through the roster along with the 2027 and 2028 recruiting classes to rank the best future prospects. The rankings are done regardless of the potential draft class each player could be a part of. 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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Hey, hey, where you've been, Bucket Talk is about to begin.

0:44.2

Hey, hey, hey, come on, man.

1:28.3

Welcome back to Bucket Talk. I am Stephen am Stephen Means. That is Stefan Christnick and that is Andrew Gillis. This is your Wednesday pod. The NFL draft draft is tomorrow, which means we'll be doing a lot of draft centric stuff over the next couple of days here. But maybe in a more interesting way, we'll have our draft prediction pod tomorrow, which should be fun. That's always a fun pod. Gillis, you love that pod, you know, because there's an element of like, here's where I want to got to go, but also the ding, ding, ding lets you be the guy who starts the conversation for guys. I think that'll be a fun pod, but that'll be for it. Good. I said, as I said last year, it was like one of my favorite podcasts of the entire year yeah i think it's i think i love the NFL draft and i think it's

1:33.2

cool talking about like where buck eyes are going to go where you think they could have a good fit

1:36.9

yeah i love that pop i am excited for i go number one pick raiders and then Gillis goes ding ding ding ding ding I know the

1:46.1

Raiders have been helbit on they need a quarterback but they're shifting gears and said you know what

1:52.2

we really really need a corner and we need Ohio State cornerback Davis and Igbenoson I'm excited

1:58.3

I'm not that much the Raiders. The Raiders were in 2020.

2:01.9

He'll go at least third. He'll go at five. First defensive player. Maybe not the first

2:07.1

overall player. But okay. Today, though, we are looking at Ohio State's program as a whole. So

2:11.9

everybody associated with Ohio State is included, meaning if they were on the 2025 roster and not,

2:18.3

if they went in the portal, it's somewhere else. You can't say, oh, Aaron Scott on your list.

2:22.1

No, no. It's either the guys who recently just left the program and are hoping to get drafted

2:26.0

on Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, guys who are currently on the roster, or they are currently

2:31.7

in a recruiting class. And that can be 27. I know they got some 28 guys

2:36.8

as well. All those guys are included and we are giving our top nines. They're individual,

2:41.4

individual top nines, though I'm sure there will be some crossover and so if there's crossover

2:46.4

we'll have conversations there. Maybe there's guys on someone's list that aren't on other people's list.

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