What’s up with Ohio State football’s defensive line heading into 2026 spring practice?
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
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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. |
| 0:32.5 | Welcome back to Bucket Talk. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm Stephen Means. |
| 0:34.3 | That's the Funk Christink. |
| 0:35.2 | And that is Andrew Gillis. |
| 0:36.4 | And we're back to previewing spring practice, which will start for Ohio State next week. The Combine is over. Stefan, I talked about that yesterday. And today we're talking about the defensive line as it reshapes itself once again. On the edge, you've got Kenyana Jackson, Bo Ackinson, Zion, Grady, Quay Russo as an Alabama transfer, and then |
| 0:55.6 | Episetanalei, Kari Wilder, Braxton, Wimbert, and Drake Quinn. |
| 0:59.5 | The last three guys are the incoming true freshman. |
| 1:02.4 | Well, the interior is where maybe you've seen the most turnover in terms of impact players |
| 1:07.2 | at the top of the depth chart. |
| 1:08.8 | Edric Houston, John Walker has a UCF transfer, James Smith is an Alabama transfer. Will Smith Jr., Jason Moore, and then freshman Damari Simeon, Emmanuel Ruffin, Darius McKinley, and Jemir Prez. Gales, this is like a kind of deep unit, right? In terms of like, when we're talking from a spring perspective, we'll see if these guys end up being guys who are impact players. |
| 1:29.9 | But from my spring perspective, I don't know, man. |
| 1:32.7 | Larry Johnson kind of had a really good offseason here. |
| 1:35.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.7 | He had a solid one. |
| 1:37.3 | You know, there are some play, like you mentioned, Jemir Perez. |
| 1:40.5 | That's a project. |
| 1:41.9 | You know, I think there are certain kind of understandings that you are going to |
| 1:46.6 | have to take in this new kind of world of recruiting and this new kind of world of college football, |
| 1:51.8 | like if that is where we're headed. Obviously, like I've made the point a couple of times, you can't |
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