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Where do Emeka Egbuka and Zach Harrison belong among the most influential Ohio State Buckeyes?

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On this Tuesday episode, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means continue to work their way through the most influential Ohio State football players for the 2022 season. The list of the top 25 started on the Friday pod with players 25 through 17. Now six more players are discussed, going from No. 16 to the edge of the top 10. Two players on this episode are fourth-year defensive end Zach Harrison and second-year receiver Emeka Egbuka, who are two examples of the differences in production, potential, opportunity and age that factor into a list like this. Two more Influential pods are ahead. For now, enjoy this one, and thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:26.0

Thanks for a couple days, Nathan. And I went back to double check before we record this recording Monday afternoon, just to see if we got any reaction to the initial influential ratings that went up on Friday.

1:40.0

And not huge complaints, but I just, I finally saw everybody saying you screwed up the Jackson Smith and Jigba poll when I sent them out.

1:50.0

And last week, and I was supposed to do, as I said on the first part, everyone was rated by the textures and scale of 1 to 10.

1:56.0

Jackson Smith and Jigba, I just hit the wrong button. It was only a 1 to 5 ranking.

2:00.0

But just a nod again to our very alert textures, who make sure, who keep us honest here. But nobody saying this is a terrible idea.

2:10.0

The first nine guys were awful, right? Which I'm always on the lookout for.

2:15.0

Well, I think there's always a spectrum of answers for these things. I think the more interesting thing is discussing it and maybe defending your stance, then trying to pinpoint exactly where guys supposed to go.

2:27.0

Yeah, I mean, it's, you have to set a baseline to start the conversation. It's hard to just like come up with like, you know what? I was just walking my dog today. And I thought to myself, I think Josh Proctor is the 17th most influential player on this team this year.

2:41.0

You know, like, you can't, that's not a thing you grab out of the air. Before we get started, Stephen, again, let me rewind.

2:47.0

We're going to do four of these pods, where we rank the 25 most influential players. Stephen Nathan and I all rated them on a value of scale of how valuable they are.

2:58.0

And then how special they are, which is their talent, how exciting, how fun, all that kind of thing.

3:03.0

And then we also had the textures sort of do like a Q rating one to 10, just how good you think the guys, how much you like the guy to cover who we already did number 25 was still chambers number 24, 10, I'm a calister, number 23, my call,

3:16.0

number 22, no struggles, number 21 Kyle McCord, number 20 JK Johnson, number 19, Tyler Williams, number 18 Julian Fleming, and number 17 Matthew Jones, that's who we covered.

3:27.0

And the first pod, Stephen, we got a text about Julian Fleming, and I think maybe we've made this reference before, but I'm not sure, so I just wanted to cover it again.

3:39.0

From the 330, the Julian Fleming conversation got me thinking is a good outcome for him, like Johnny Dixon.

3:49.0

In 2017, he had 18 catches for 422 yards and 80 days and 2018 had 42 catches for 669 yards and 18 to 80 days. Dixon was another guy who really had to overcome a lot to eventually become a contributor, but when he got a shot, he was a really big piece, not the big piece, but really important.

4:12.0

No, maybe some might see that type of career as underwhelming for what Fleming was coming in, but I think if he can be that with this team, that's like a monster outcome from the 330.

4:26.0

I replied to that texture and I said, my gut instinct, Nathan was, or Stephen was like, that still maybe feels like a little low, but like, but maybe not, I don't know, maybe, maybe Johnny Dixon, listen, Johnny Dixon, there was a point with his knees where I think he thought, and we thought his career was over.

4:41.0

And then it wasn't, and it was like, oh, Julian Fleming is not at that point, but is that a good for Johnny Dixon was a really valuable part of the 2018 passing game, Stephen, is that a decent framework for Julian Fleming conversation.

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