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What’s up with Ohio State football’s cornerbacks heading into 2026 spring practice?

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis preview the cornerbacks, looking at all the names, goals for the spring and the group’s ceiling. Plus, whether we think this group will be better, the same or worse than it was in 2025. 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

Buckeye talk is about to begin.

0:21.1

Hey, hey, hey, come on, man.

0:32.0

Welcome back to Bucket Talk.

0:33.3

I am Stephen Meese.

0:34.1

That's Defon Crikesnik, and that is Andrew Gillis.

0:36.0

As we continue our preview of spring practice position group by position group. We have made it to Tim Walton's cornerbacks.

0:43.8

Jermaine Matthews takes over as the most experienced player in the room. Man, it's crazy. It was Denzel Burke and Davis and Abinosa. That's the starting cornerbacks here forever in a day. And now that's kind of over with.

0:55.3

Obviously, Denzel Burke left after the 2024 season and now Davis and Igmanosin. Probably a day two pick. At this point, sorry, Gillis. It's probably not going to happen at this point. Yeah. So I was kind of waiting on that combine buzz. And it wouldn't happen. Yeah. Typically you hear like a Daniel Jeremiah or something.

1:13.5

They're like, hey, guess who turns out? combine buzz and it would happen. Yeah, typically you hear like a Daniel Jeremiah or something.

1:13.5

They're like, hey, guess who turned some heads? And like, you see that a lot. And it's like,

1:18.2

well, the two dudes who turned some heads maybe went from like the third or fourth pick to the

1:23.5

second pick and then maybe like the eighth or ninth pick to like the fifth pick so there's

1:28.4

this is also a very loaded cornerback class which i'm not sure we thought would be the case 12

1:33.7

months ago this kind of cornerback class is actually better than last year's cornerback class

1:37.6

in terms of depth so like sorry jillane and terrell are really good at the top yeah well no i mean

1:42.8

tennessee's got two good guys and there's a kid kids from south carolina i think it's really good at the top. Yeah, well, no, I mean, Tennessee's got two good guys,

1:44.3

and there's a kid from South Carolina, I think he's really good, too. So it's, yeah, sorry. There's a good run, though. It was a good run. Are you happy with it? Are you happy with the run overall? Sure. Hope the commanders trade back and take him. He gave us content, if nothing also. He did. He did. Three years worth of content. Dave was in Igbenoz and gave us.

2:03.3

Listen, listen. I... He gave us content, if nothing also. He did. He did. Three years worth of content.

2:18.1

Davis and Igbenoson gave us. Listen, listen. I will never. Like, there's another guy in the class I really like. His name is Ticario Davis. He was a Washington kid. He was hurt, I think, for the OSU game. He's like a 6-4 corner. and that's kind of my,

2:20.4

he's kind of my weakness in, in football.

2:21.0

Like, when I was like younger, it was always just like, go get me a six foot five wide receiver that can just go jump and make a play.

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