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Ohio State Spring Football Preview: Quarterbacks, Running Backs, Tight Ends · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Friday, February thirteenth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: favorite off season series is done by my buddy turner
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  Speaker 1: Tony Gerdaman at bucke Huddle dot com, where right after
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  Speaker 1: the previous season he puts out a projected depth chart
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  Speaker 1: for the upcoming season, and then you start having NFL
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  Speaker 1: draft declarations and transfer portal entries and transfer portal additions,
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  Speaker 1: and then it ends up getting all shot all the heck,
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  Speaker 1: and then you sort of revisit it once that's done,
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  Speaker 1: and then you have your sort of pre spring check
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  Speaker 1: in on that, and then everything will change again after
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  Speaker 1: the post spring practice time. But this is a time
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  Speaker 1: when we're going to be doing that pre spring checking
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  Speaker 1: check in. This is going to be a few shows
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  Speaker 1: because there's a lot to talk about we're going to
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  Speaker 1: kind of go positioned by position, probably not got a
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  Speaker 1: couple position groups at a time. We're going to start
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  Speaker 1: with the quarterbacks, because where else would you start, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: This one is a fairly straightforward one. I'm guessing this
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  Speaker 1: is probably not going to change a whole heck of
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  Speaker 1: a lot over the course of the spring. But what
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  Speaker 1: does the Ohio State quarterback depth chart look like heading
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  Speaker 1: into spring ball?
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  Speaker 2: Heading into springball, Tome, you are talking about returning starter
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  Speaker 2: Julian Saying as your number one as a red shirt sophomore,
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  Speaker 2: Davian Saint Clair the red shirt freshman, he'll be a
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  Speaker 2: retro freshman in twenty twenty six, taking that step from
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  Speaker 2: true freshman guy on scout team and in the background
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  Speaker 2: to you are now the backup. So he'll be the
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  Speaker 2: number two. Then you've got Maryland transferred, Justin Martin as
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  Speaker 2: the number three, and then true freshman Luke Fahe getting
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  Speaker 2: his opportunity to just and learn as much as you
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  Speaker 2: can without you know, just being overwhelmed. It's spring, do
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  Speaker 2: what you can. Nobody's expecting you to be the number
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  Speaker 2: one guy. So saying Saint Clair Martin fahee.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is pretty straightforward. That might be as straightforward
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  Speaker 1: as any of these get. Because as soon as you
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  Speaker 1: get into well, you'll see, you know, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: do running backs next, and you'll see suddenly the water
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  Speaker 1: gets a little muddier here where you've got a couple
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  Speaker 1: returning starter. You've got a returning starter, you've got a
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  Speaker 1: returning guy who was impressive and sort of limited but
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  Speaker 1: ever increasing action last season, but both of them are
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  Speaker 1: not taking part in spring ball, so that really muddies
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  Speaker 1: the water even a little bit more. And then you've
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  Speaker 1: got a veteran transfer. I mean, there's a lot going
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  Speaker 1: on here at running back.
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  Speaker 2: There is, and we're going to get a good look
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  Speaker 2: at some guys that we haven't gotten to see, you know,
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  Speaker 2: mainly talking about Turbo Rogers of course, who didn't play
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  Speaker 2: last year. We saw him a little bit in fall camp,
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  Speaker 2: had some impressive moments, but it's camp, so you can't
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  Speaker 2: really you don't want toe of running back too much
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  Speaker 2: by what you see, like, wow, look at him running
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  Speaker 2: for forty yards. They couldn't even tackle him, Like, yes,
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  Speaker 2: they're not allowed to tackle him, so you should go
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  Speaker 2: forty yards. We'll get to see. Of course, you mentioned
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  Speaker 2: Jacoby Jackson coming in from Florida, who was lost for
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  Speaker 2: the season last year due to injury. The year prior
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  Speaker 2: rush for over five hundred yards and was a key
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  Speaker 2: member of that team rush for over one hundred yards
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  Speaker 2: against Texas. Then you've got true freshman's too, true freshmen
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  Speaker 2: in favorra Key and Legend Bay. We'll see about Legend Bay.
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  Speaker 2: He could be, he could be a receiver, he could
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  Speaker 2: be a running back. He may be. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if it's too much to ask of him as a
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  Speaker 2: true freshman in spring to like, well, you'll be here
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  Speaker 2: today and then over there, so we'll get an idea
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  Speaker 2: of where he where they want him initially this season,
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  Speaker 2: maybe by where he starts out in the spring. So, yes,
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  Speaker 2: we won't have Bo Jackson out there leading rusher. You
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  Speaker 2: won't have Isaiah West out there second leading returning rush,
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  Speaker 2: but you will have Turbo Rodgers, Jacoby Jackson, Legend By
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  Speaker 2: and favor a Kei. And probably in terms of tom
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  Speaker 2: who is leading leading the charge there you assume it
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  Speaker 2: would be I guess, well, you guess it would probably
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  Speaker 2: be Jacoby Jackson because he's the most experienced. But this
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  Speaker 2: is interesting because generally the newcomers that even the transfers
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  Speaker 2: are kind of watching the veterans do it, go through
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  Speaker 2: the drills, and then they their second, third, or fourth
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  Speaker 2: in line or whatever. There are no veterans to follow,
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  Speaker 2: you know. I guess when they're doing their jogging and
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  Speaker 2: they're they're stretching, you'll maybe still see Bo Jackson and
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah West out there too to lead the charge. But
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  Speaker 2: it will be interesting to see what happens between Turbo
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  Speaker 2: Rodgers and Jacoby Jackson in the spring, though, I think
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  Speaker 2: the bigger competition will be in fall camp between Jacoby
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  Speaker 2: Jackson and as a a West for those for those
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  Speaker 2: number two carries.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there are a whole lot of guys who have
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  Speaker 1: not done a whole lot in Columbus, Ohio. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: in most cases it is has nothing to do. It's
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  Speaker 1: not their fault at all. It's either they were playing
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  Speaker 1: at another school, or they were hurt, or they were
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  Speaker 1: in high school or you know, there's lots of everyone
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  Speaker 1: has an excuse, Tony, we know how it is. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of a lot of new faces,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of folks we have not
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  Speaker 1: seen on the practice field and that's that's another area
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  Speaker 1: where this is one where I think you're going to
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  Speaker 1: see a lot of shuffling in terms of the specific
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  Speaker 1: order of guys even throughout the spring practice. So all right,
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  Speaker 1: so we had one very very straightforward, easy one. We
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  Speaker 1: had one that's gonna be a little bit muddy and
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  Speaker 1: that is probably going to change quite a bit going
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  Speaker 1: into fall camp. And now we have the tight ends.
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  Speaker 1: The tight ends are an interesting one because they had
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  Speaker 1: they lost their top two tight ends off of last
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  Speaker 1: year's team. He also had Jolanni Thurman hit the transfer portal.
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  Speaker 1: They brought in a couple of tight ends from the
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  Speaker 1: transfer portal. You have a couple of guys who've got
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of snaps coming back. You got some guys
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  Speaker 1: who have not played a whole heck of a lot.
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  Speaker 1: You got a newcomer. Where do you think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how do things stack up at tight end?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Ryan Day on his radio show talked about Bennett
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  Speaker 2: Christian being the leader of the room and he's you know,
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  Speaker 2: he this is what is a fourth year, fifth year.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he's been around and he's gone through a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And you missed the do one year due to suspension.
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  Speaker 2: And then stuck it out and has been here two
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  Speaker 2: years since that, and now this is his third year
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  Speaker 2: and has had opportunities to leave, but clearly wants to
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  Speaker 2: stick it out. And we saw him as one of
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  Speaker 2: those top four tight ends on the field last year.
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  Speaker 2: So he is back. He will lead things and set
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  Speaker 2: the tone. You've got Nate Roberts, who is a true
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  Speaker 2: freshman last year played quite a bit, mostly as a fullback,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, it is one of the most potential
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  Speaker 2: Layden tight ends that I think Ohio State has brought
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  Speaker 2: in and some time. So you know, I think those
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  Speaker 2: are your two returning veterans, even though Nate Roberts is
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  Speaker 2: just gonna be a sophomore. We we didn't see much
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  Speaker 2: of Brody Lennon last year. He's a retrot freshman this year.
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  Speaker 2: Max LeBlanc Rechard sophomore. Have only ever seen him in practices.
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  Speaker 2: So that's those are the returning guys. Then they're adding
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  Speaker 2: in Hunter Wilson from Northwestern Mason Williams from Ohio. Those
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  Speaker 2: are the two veterans who you know, both had over
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  Speaker 2: you know, twenty twenty five thirty catches last year at
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  Speaker 2: their respective schools and have been productive players on offense,
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  Speaker 2: both catching the ball and run blocking and past blocking,
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  Speaker 2: all the sorts of all those sorts of things. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, you lose willcas Merrick, you lose Max Claire.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that they went into the portal and grabbed
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  Speaker 2: two tight ends isn't a surprise, but you know they
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  Speaker 2: also lose Jalannie Thurman to the portal and wanted to
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  Speaker 2: make up some of those losses and to go and
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  Speaker 2: get two veterans like Mason Williams and Hunter Wilson is
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  Speaker 2: seems like you can just plug them in. And who
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  Speaker 2: is the starter? Tom, I think you know you consider
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  Speaker 2: wilk as American max player, both co starters last year
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  Speaker 2: they did start plenty of times together in twelve personnel.
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  Speaker 2: Who is the starter? Who? Maybe who are the two
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  Speaker 2: starters this year? Tom, Like, eventually we'll see how it
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  Speaker 2: all ends up the spring. I'm I'll go ahead and say,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's ben At Christian to start, just because
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  Speaker 2: he's the veteran of the returners, but you know, behind him,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just gonna depend on the day the spring,
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  Speaker 2: and then over the course of fall camp and the season,
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  Speaker 2: you might have like we're all considered starters here that
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  Speaker 2: sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does feel like one is something where even
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  Speaker 1: if they're just in twelve personnel, you might see four
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  Speaker 1: guys playing tight end during any given game, and you
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  Speaker 1: know what is the exact mixture, Well, that might depend
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  Speaker 1: a little bit on the game plan where you know
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  Speaker 1: you've got Mason Williams who might be the will Chasmerrick
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  Speaker 1: sort of blocking first type of guy. And is Nate
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  Speaker 1: Roberts kind of in that mold as well, And is
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  Speaker 1: Hunter Wilson more of the max player type? And where
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  Speaker 1: does Bennett Christian fit. Bennett Christian, It's so funny because
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  Speaker 1: he's he is a class of twenty twenty two recruits,
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  Speaker 1: so this is his fifth season in college. He committed
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  Speaker 1: to Ohio State. Take a moment to I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: say this date and just take a moment to soak
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  Speaker 1: this in September one, twenty and twenty, that is when
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  Speaker 1: he committed to Ohio State. That is right after the
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten was not going to play football and the
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  Speaker 1: decision was not going to be revisited. So that was
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  Speaker 1: the time that Bennett Christian committed to Ohio State. So, yes,
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  Speaker 1: that has been that has been a minute that he
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  Speaker 1: has been at least indirectly a part of the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State football program. Fifth year seems like he's definitely definitely
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  Speaker 1: going to be playing a bigger role this year. We
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  Speaker 1: will see how much bigger and exactly what percentage of
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  Speaker 1: those tight end snaps he takes. But so a quick
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  Speaker 1: run through of three different position groups. On tomorrow show,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take a look at the wide receivers. That will
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