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Elite 2026 WR Chris Henry, Jr. Dominates Ohio State Summer Camp · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Tuesday, June seventeenth, them your host Tom
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  Moore, the Akron game in seventy four days, the game against Michigan in
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  one hundred and sixty five days. We're gonna get into all sorts of Ohio
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  State camp stuff. First, a little bit of housekeeping, A change any
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  schedule for Ohio State for twenty twenty six. Goodbye Yukon, Hello Grambling State.
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  It is a not in Ohio State. Not ducking Jim Mora and the
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  Mighty Huskies. They just didn't want to have one of their off weeks be
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  week two, so they shifted. It ended up working out gladder for Yukon
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  as well, so they mutually agreed upon a schedule change. No problem.
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  And if you don't know anything about Grambling State, don't worry about the football
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  team, just worry about the band. One of the greatest bands in among
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  the HPCU teams. A little bit like when Florida and m came up in
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  twenty thirteen, twenty eleven, whenever that was, but their band did not
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  come up. The whole point of that game was bring their band up and
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  let one of the great HPCU bands play with on the same field as the
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  Ohio State's band. Maybe we'll get to that next year with Grambling. All
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  right, So that's that's the housekeeping on with the exciting portion of today's show,
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  which is Chris Henry Jr. Holy Smokes joined by Mark Devler Bucke Huddle
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  dot Com. And I guess the first thing is I stood next to Chris
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  Henry Jr. I'm six two and I'm looking at like the tops of his
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  shoulders. He's listed at six to five. He's even bigger than that.
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  He could very well be six six. You can talk me in a sixty
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  six six six and a half special special talent, just the way he's able
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  to move at that size. I know everyone's already trying to call him Jimmy
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  Graham or is he going to be a tight end until I see him not
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  be able to execute route running at the highest of levels. He's going to
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  be a receiver for me. But just a freak of nature. And good
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  to see him back here, obviously after the move to California and working with
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  Brian Artline. And he also in addition to getting taller, he was a
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  couple of years ago when he was here visiting and he was in whatever seventh
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  grade at that point. But he was, I mean just a stick.
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  He was a rail. He has looks like he has put on, you
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  know, fifteen twenty pounds of good weight, and he was moving out there.
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  I don't know how much of the one on ones you got to watch,
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  but he it was whatever you need to do. Did you need him
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  to take the top off the defense, no problems. You need him to
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  go on the sideline, no problems. Do you need to fight through traffic
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  in the middle, No problem. It was just whatever you need to do.
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  He was there. Yeah. You again, he was probably the most
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  physically impressive kid here, and that's saying something. There are a lot of
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  very highly ranked kids here in the twenty sixth class, and again Chris just
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  kind of stands out among the other aliens. Yeah. And there were another
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  very very highly recruited, highly rated wide receiver, Sidarian Morgan out of Alabama,
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  he was here as well, and he was it was like he had
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  a very impressive day and there were probably days this summer where he would have
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  been the best athlete on the field. And then you put him next to
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  Chris Henry Junior and it was like, I mean, he had a very
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  good day, but he wasn't Chris Henry Jr. No, he just you
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  know, he's not six five sixty six. And when Chris can do all
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  the things that the six to one receivers can do and at his size,
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  it just really separates him. But Sadarian was very good. Can take the
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  top off the defense, explosive, strong hands, strong build. I think
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  he'll get a little bit stronger too on top of that, but already fairly
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  strong. And I thought again had a great day and the whole this was
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  a great receiver group. This was a really good receiver group. I know
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  Heartlin's had a few good groups this summer, but I kind of like this
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  one of the best. It was up there and Morgan looks like he's again
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  he's got two more years of high school. He looks like he's physically ready
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  to play at the college level where he's just he's big, solid again,
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  go up, get the wall, very good hands. It was, you
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  know, he was I don't want to take anything away from him. He
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  had a very nice day as well. I'm sure he would be something that
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  someone thatt Ohio State would be very interested in having. In their class.
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  One other name. You know, we had sort of names on our you
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  know, we knew Chris Henry Junior was coming, we knew Sitter and Morton
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  was coming. There were other names we knew. There was one that I
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  did not know walking in And every once in a while you'll have a who's
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  that guy? And then you'll have a there goes that man again. And
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  that man for me today was twenty twenty seven wide receiver Trenton Yancey, where
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  he just you kept looking and like, who is the kid in the Elias
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  shirt? And you just you know something, you know, remember Stets Bennettould
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  where the USPS hat into camps. To me memorable, Well, Trenton yancy
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  was the kid in the Elias shirt and all day I'm like, who is
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  the kid in Alisha? He kept he kept making plays all day and you
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  actually got a chance to talk to him after the camp. Yeah, So
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  I had a little bit of an advantage on this one. Margin Hooks is
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  his trainer down in Texas. He's out of Arlington and he trains Daleen McCutcheon.
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  We were down at Daleen's workout with Margin during Southern Swing. So I
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  got a text this morning saying, hey, watch watch this kid. I
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  got one of my kids there said, okay, you know what years is
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  twenty seven. It's like, oh okay, he said, Trent and Yancy,
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  and I'm like, oh okay. And then I kind of was able
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  to get get a look at what he looked like, and I've lined him
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  up out there. I'm like, oh, that kid's awesome. And then
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  we looked up, Oh, he's got thirty offers already, and this kid's
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  big time. So he had an unbelievable day. Not as tall as maybe
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  a couple of other guys, maybe like six feet yeah, maybe, but
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  boy can he do everything. Yeah, backer, circus, catches separations,
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  a great route runner, explosive kid. Gosh, he was fantastic. They
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  haven't offered him yet. I tend to think they will, if not today,
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  at some point. And he was one where they were, as you
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  said, kind of did a little bit of everything You've got. I've got
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  pictures of him going over the middle, I get him, pictures him going
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  down the sideline. I get a pictures and running a post in the end
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  zone. I have pictures of him and I threw this on my Twitter account
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  and it's on the huddleboard at bucket huddle dot com as well, going up
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  and just mosting a guy and the coverage was phenomenal. It was like A
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  plus coverage. Nothing you could do better and just went up mosstam, caught
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  it, came down with it, fought for it, touchdown. Incredibly impressive.
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  That's Those are the guys that I always remember, is you know,
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  you come here and it's like you're coming here and expecting to see Chris Henry
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  Junior look good, and he looks better than good, and it's like,
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  oh good, you know, good for him. That's great. The kids
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  who you come and you don't know who they are when you walk in the
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  door and you're like, who is that guy? Those are the ones that
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  always kind of stick with me. Those are the ones that you know,
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  generally are reflective of big things. Might be ahead very mile and grahamish,
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  except you know, Graham didn't have You know, this kid has the offers
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  already from like out of states, from outer region schools, you know,
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  but in terms of not knowing maybe who he was at the beginning of camp
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  and him just impressing just off of what he was doing out there versus a
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  name or a star ranking. Yeah, and good news for Ohio State fans.
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  He's got family in Columbus, Cleveland and Youngstown and referred to Ohio State
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  several times in my interview as wide receiver. You m M, So that's
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  a kid that seems gettable. Yeah, it's early, but seems very gettable.
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  Came all the way up here. The only other school he's gonna visit
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  the summer that was out of he visited Texas schools, Oklahoma, and he's
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  gonna go to Georgia in a few days and that's it. So Ohio State
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  was kind of ohising Georgia or the outliers here in terms of getting outside of
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  Texas and that part of the count So look out for that kid. We'll
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  have an interview up with him on the YouTube channel on the website and a
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  gay Hill refertile O High States wide receiver you multiple times, Yeah, Yeah,
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  that's that's definitely a name too. Name a name. I did not
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  know what a name for you to know and for everyone to know moving forward.
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  I name it. I think everyone did know coming in and name people
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  knew thirty five years ago for a different reason. Twenty twenty five wide receiver
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  running back Bo Jackson obviously someone we have seen at these camps for a number
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  of years. He is another guy who just every year it's like, oh,
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  he's bigger and stronger than he was last year, but still moving really
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  well. A current Ohio State running back commit for twenty twenty five. I
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  never want to draw too many conclusions from a camp setting with a running back,
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  but he kind of checked all the boxes for me when what I watched.
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  He's big, fast and strong and agile. Yeah, I mean,
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  he's got all the physical tools and he's not committed to Georgia. Folks,
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  by the way, I want to make sure we get that in there.
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  You can pick Ohio State funny anyway. Uh yeah, tremendous day out there.
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  Yeah, you'd like to see, you know, you gotta see him
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  run between the tackles and everything else. So there are some things running backs
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  can't really show out here. But he's a big, big kid. I
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  mean, he's he's two ten, be pushing two twenty soon, and he's
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  already out there doing the things the scatbacks are doing. So this shouldn't be
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  a setting that maybe he thrives in, and he does, and that's just
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  all the more impressive, much like Chris Henry Junior at the receiver position.
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  All the more impressive that he's doing the same things, if at an even
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  a higher level than smaller people. And Carlos Laughlan, the new running backs
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  coach, had a drill set up where he had pads set up just kind
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  of like a yard apart, give or take, and they would kind of
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  have him kind of running like a sweep and then he would just say go
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  and you have to stick your foot in the ground and go in one of
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  the kind of channels between the two pads. Looked very comfortable sticking his foot
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  in the ground, good change of direction, very explosive. It was.
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  You know, usually usually when you look at an Ohio State caliber player,
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  you know, a guy who they've offered, a guy who's committed, you
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  can look and go, yeah, that is someone who's doing something that most
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  other people cannot do. And even in a pretty talented, you know,
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  another running back group where this you know, this was not a bunch of
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  you know, guys who are going to be playing D three or going to
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  college and something other than sports. This is a very solid running back group
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  again kind of stood out there. So that's very impressive. Another guy who
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  was very impressive, you said in the defensive line group, where there were
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  some talented players as well in twenty twenty six, defensive lineman Duce Gerald's.
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  Yeah, Deuce Gerald's was here. Today, we will have more of the
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  defensive line group on the board on the huddle board, because it was a
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  very talented group. But just for the for reference of kind of one on
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  ones, Douce we had the most dominant performance in one on ones. He
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  kept taking reps. He was taking reps at three tech. He was taking
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  reps a kind of like a five tech. He took reps on the edge.
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  No one could stop him. They couldn't stop him inside, they couldn't
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  stop him outside. He showed just an array of pass rush moves and he's
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  just so strong and explosive coming off the football that people were having a heart.
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  He was getting into guys before they could even really the ball was snapped.
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  Just an unbelievable player. I continue to love where Ohio State's a out
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  with that one. I think there's a very good chance he's currently in my
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  projected twenty twenty sixth class and I don't really see that changing. I think
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  something we have to go pretty sideways. Well, So that is the last
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  day of these camps that we cover all summer. The month of June.
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  Always we get, you know, five or six of those. We're wrapping
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  it up on Tuesday with the seven on seven camp, which we'll get a
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  chance to watch. You know, it's not drills, it's I mean,
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  you know what's seven on seven is lots of wide receivers and skill guys and
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  not not a lot of line play. But that's okay, So get a
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  chance to watch these guys in a little bit more of a game situation too.
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  We will be back here covering all of that. May get a chance
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  to talk to Ryan Day, We'll see if that happens. Hoping to get
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  a chance to get ask the head coach a few questions as we head into
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  the summer and head into July, which is generally they're wrapping up official visits
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  later this month. Then that tends to be committing a season for a certain
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  number of guys. So July will be a busy, busy first half of
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  July, with that busy second half of July with big ten media days.
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  Kevin, Tony and I have already been brainstorming about Big Ten media days,
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  lots of exciting stuff on tap there, and then fall camp starts August first.
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  Should be a really, really fun few months heading into the season at
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  bucke huddle dot com, where that's where you can find Kevin, Tony and
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  I covering the team, Mark covering recruiting, and our whole team of Bex's
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  nose gurus making you a smarter football fan, all at bucke huddle dot com.
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  That'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for joining us.
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  Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.