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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Thayer Munford is the nation's best tackle, and other top-10 Buckeyes in PFF rankings

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On this Friday Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com, Anthony Treash of PFF visits to go over his rankings of the top 10 players at every position in college football. Six Buckeyes made the top-10 at their position, which tied for the second-most for any team behind Alabama. Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means start with Thayer Munford, ranked as the No. 1 offensive tackle in the nation by Treash, and then go through the other five Buckeyes who made the top 10, and a few other Buckeyes that didn’t. Then Doug, Nathan and Stephen wrap up with a discussion of what surprised them the most from Treash’s rankings. It’s a great guest and a great pod for the weekend. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, where you been, but I talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in, welcome back to the weekend.

0:27.0

And Buck, I talk to Claymore East, Nathan Baird, Stephen Means, and join by a special guest, Anthony Tresh of PFF, who has ranked the best players at every position in college football, which is like catnip.

0:42.0

It is so wonderful.

0:44.0

Anthony, I feel like I was going to put out an APB to the world to say, well, someone please help me put fair, monford in context.

0:55.0

I know he's good.

0:57.0

I have no idea how good and your rankings fell from the sky and help me do this.

1:04.0

There are six buck guys that are ranked among the top 10 players at their positions in college football, according to your rankings.

1:11.0

We're going to talk about all of them, but Anthony, first of all, thank you for joining us.

1:16.0

Yeah, thank you for having me and in these rankings are always interesting because there's so many players in college football.

1:24.0

And I think sometimes it's hard for people to grasp that there are so many players at these positions, just because a guy is maybe like 15th or 12th and didn't quite make the top 10.

1:33.0

It doesn't mean they're bad players, but you know, like you said, with Ohio State having as many guys as they did, that is quite impressive.

1:39.0

And listen, I mean, you guys, everybody knows PFF, if you don't know PFF, you should, they do NFL stuff, they do college stuff.

1:46.0

Anthony, you are like the lead guy on a lot of the college stuff.

1:51.0

The man NFL easy 32 teams, that's, that's child's play.

1:57.0

You're trying to rank the top 10 out of 130 teams because we know, right?

2:02.0

There's going to be a lot of bam on clubs in Ohio State guys.

2:05.0

But if there's a, if there's a North Texas guy in there, I mean, if there's a, if there's a Tulsa guy in there, you got to put him in there.

2:12.0

So before we get started, like, how do you even begin the process of this? I know PFF has rankings on everybody.

2:19.0

But like, what, what's it like when you try to take on a project like this?

2:23.0

Yeah, so I mean, first things first, I kind of just go with, at first, I kind of know, go with what I know, write the names down that I know are going to be up there.

2:30.0

And then I dive into our database that is contracted out to all 32 NFL teams and a broad majority of the division one programs in college football.

2:38.0

And I kind of analyze all of these guys's PFF grades.

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