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Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

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🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The day is here. We've been waiting for the NFL Draft and tonight's first round will take place in Pittsburgh.

But it will have a decidedly Ohio State feel. Five Buckeyes are expected to be chosen in the first round. Four may go in the top 10 - which has not been done in almost 60 years.

You know and love the names: Caleb Downs, Kayden McDonald, Sonny Styles, Arvell Reese and Carnell Tate. That's alphabetical order. It won't be their draft order.

Garrick Hodge and Mark Porter rank the five Buckeyes as if they were running an NFL team.

But that's after a trip down memory line with all five Buckeyes. High school video of Arvell and Sonny dominating? We've got that.

As if that was not enough, Mark's video breakdown of Ohio State's spring game defense and who flashed is also on tap.

Spend 5ish with us this a.m., 'Nutters!

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Good morning Bucknutters.
0:29.9	It's Thursday, April 23rd, 2026.
0:32.9	I am Dan Rubin.
0:33.9	This is the Bucknuts Morning 5 in Change,
0:37.2	joined, as always on Thursdays by
0:39.3	Garrick Hodge and Mark Porter. It is a big day for the Buckeyes. Tonight is the NFL
0:45.7	draft's first round held in Pittsburgh. No truth for the rumor that it was moved to Pittsburgh
0:51.5	because there were so many Buckeyes in it. They just wanted to cut down the commute.
1:13.6	As I've said before, we could have tonight's round in Columbus. Five Buckeyes are expected to be picked. We're going to dive deep on that and all the fun that we can have with that. We're going to take it from a little bit of a different angle since we've known these guys for so long. we're going to kind of go back in the way back machine for a couple of these dudes.
1:11.1	Garrick has written some great stuff about their
1:16.4	recruitment, which you can find on the site. And then Mark has known a few of these guys longer than
1:23.0	anyone in the biz. So very cool to see guys who you've known for many, many years. I was going to say
1:31.2	become millionaires. A few of them are probably already millionaires given the NIL era, but bigger
1:36.5	beach houses. Beach houses on islands with security. So we're looking forward to that. We are also looking forward to the first ever
1:47.1	done to da big board update, which is always going to come on the third Thursday of the month,
1:54.3	Garracath. The first one was tremendous. What we're going to have today is what you see in a
1:59.0	month of change in recruiting.
2:01.5	Who moves around?
2:02.9	Guys have committed elsewhere or committed to Ohio State.
2:05.6	How does that affect the whole deal?
2:07.3	So that will be up later this afternoon, and we will really dive deep on that on Tuesday.
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