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Ohio State Losing A Running Back To The Transfer Portal · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Monday, December fourth, I'm your host,
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  tom Or. The Cotton Bowl against Missouri in twenty five days, the
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  game against Michigan in three hundred and sixty two days. We're gonna have a
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  whole separate show talking about the Cotton Bowl against Missouri and maybe a little bit
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  about the previous game against Michigan. But right now we get to do a
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  quick update on another Buckeye who just hit the transfer portal. Running back Evan
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  Pryor, after his third season with the Buckeyes, announced to on three that
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  he was going to be hitting the portal. Portal does not officially open until
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  Monday, but when it does, he apparently will be in it. This
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  is another one where it's not a complete surprise by any means Tony Gerderman that
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  he's headed out, you know, certainly not someone that they would choose to
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  lose, but the fact that he's been on campus for three years and through
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  injury and just to stack depth chart, it's been hard for him to get
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  on the field. Yeah, I think when you sign a top one hundred
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  type skill player, you expect to lose them after three years. But this
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  is a little bit different, and when you have not really played for your
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  first three years, you're gonna want to go find a place to play.
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  And he's dealt with injuries obviously still a very talented player, but I think
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  leaving would be We'll provide him an opportunity to go find somewhere to actually play,
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  compete for a starting job somewhere, because you look at everybody who has
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  been ahead of him, like Dalan Hayden has stayed ahead of him while they
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  were still keeping Dollan Hayden's rich here. But he's fourth fifth in the depth
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  chart here and clearly even losing some guys, which they should Why I say
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  should lose some guys, doesn't seem like playing time is necessarily something that is
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  even into works next year, right, And he came in as the number
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  six running back in the class of twenty twenty one. Trivian Henderson was number
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  one, Donovan Edwards was number four, and then Evan Pryor was number six,
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  and they chose Evan Pryor. They Evan Pryor was the guy that they
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  wanted. He just has not been able to stay on the field. He
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  was kind of buried on the depth chart. As a true freshman. Sure
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  that happens as his second year had a knee injury, missed the whole season,
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  and then this year just they had five guys. And when you have
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  five guys and none of them are true freshmen who are just coming in and
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  figuring out where stuff is, well that's tough to get on the field.
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  And Chevan Henderson and Chip train him, and Mayan Williams and Dalan Hayden,
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  and you know, all four of those guys are capable backs. And you
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  know, I guess maybe the most interesting piece of this is, Okay,
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  how many of those five guys are back next year, because it feels like
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  you could make a case for any of them to come back, But you
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  could also make a case for you know, none of you know, none
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  of them are out of eligibility, But I don't know that I'm expecting the
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  other four to come back. Well, we know Miyan Williams walked on senior
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  deck correct, Chip train him did not. Chevan Henderson may look to cash
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  and he had a pretty good years all Big ten was healthy for most of
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  the year and may want to at the draft. At that point, Xavier
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  Johnson was getting carries obviously ahead of Evan as well. Obviously he will be
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  gone. So you think I would not be surprised if it is just Chip
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  train him and Dylan Hayden back next year or the Buck guys. But they're
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  bringing in three guys. You got three running backs coming in in this class,
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  Jordan Lyle and Sam Williams, Dixon and James Peoples. Yes, so
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  you know, people seems like he might be the most immediate impact of those
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  three guys. Maybe, but you know, even if you do have if
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  if Trey Van Henderson does turn pro and Miam Williams go somewhere else or turns
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  pro or whatever it is, you know, Chip train him, Dlan Hayden
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  and those three guys, all of a sudden, you get a five running
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  back room again. So maybe you know, this may have been one of
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  these things where it wasn't a complete surprise. They may not have known exactly
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  who was going to leave, but when you have five veteran running backs,
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  you can't assume they're all going to come back for another year. Yeah,
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  and really, remember when Trey Van Henderson and prior committed almost essentially together,
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  like they knew they're gonna be part of the same class they wanted to carry,
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  to share the load. But when you do sign two guys at one
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  position like that, two guys at quarterback, two guys at running back,
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  you kind of assume one of them is eventually going to hit the portal,
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  you know, in that way. And obviously not getting the carries that he
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  thought he would, not getting the playing time, this was a this is
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  one of those that was a likely thing to happen. When you chart all
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  of the possibilities, his name would be up there, and you know,
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  they had plans for him. They talked about plans for him, you know,
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  and a good fall camp in twenty twenty two before the injury, and
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  there was some excitement building there. Obviously that didn't come to fruition. And
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  then you know, talking to Tony Alford, I think back in the spring,
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  like, hey, I asked him, could we see Evan Pryor as
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  a kick return or something like that. Yeah, but he'd like, yeah,
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  that'd be great if he could do that. And yet you never really
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  saw any of that. Talked about him as a guy that you can work
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  in the slot as well. That was never part of what we saw from
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  him. And just the very little parts that we saw. It was basically,
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  you are the last guy running the ball. Here are your two carries
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  in a forty point game, go overund the clock out between the tackles,
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  right, and you know you already used a red shirt year, so you
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  weren't trying to preserve a red shirt. So it was just kind of like,
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  well, you know, you don't want to use Dllan Hayden's red shirt
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  season, so therefore you're going to have have Evan prior to some of those
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  carries. The timing of this was interesting because we were in talking to Ryan
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  Day about the Cotton Bowl against Missouri as this news broke on Twitter, and
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  it was interesting to hear Day talk about the transfer portal in general, because
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  this is this is you know, tis the season that you've got guys going
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  out. You're probably gonna you know, they are going to be active at
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  some point in the portal bringing guys in as well. Day talked about how
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  what you felt and what you thought when guys transferred when this first, you
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  know, twenty twenty one something like that is very different than what you're sort
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  of thinking and feeling when you hear a guy is going in the portal from
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  your team. Now, yeah, it's back then it was you know,
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  what's wrong? What's going on? And it reminded me of stuff that Irban
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  Meyer would say in terms of like what's going on in your program? If
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  people are leaving and you're thinking, you're looking inward, like what are we
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  doing wrong? What's what's the situation? Why are things this way? Where
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  are people choosing to leave? Whereas now it's people are choosing to leave because
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  they want to go play somewhere else, and they can leave freely looking for
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  other opportunities, whether it's nil, playing time, whatever. You can't take
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  it as personally as you used to, or you can't be like, what's
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  wrong with our program if people are leaving, because it's just the way of
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  the world. Now. It's if in five years, what will be the
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  percentage of players who play at one school? Is it going to be less
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  than fifty percent? Like you know, around fifty percent. I mean,
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  I keep waiting for a market correction where you have a lot of guys who
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  go into the portal. And I saw someone tweet about this a week or
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  so ago, that you know, you see guys going into portal and a
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  bunch of them don't realize they have already put on their pads for the last
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  time that you can go in the portal. That does not mean that there
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  is someone waiting there on the other side with open arms saying welcome. Here's
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  a big nil track there is. It is an uncertain future in the portal,
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  especially with the number of guys who are in there. And you know,
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  here's the thing about football players. They keep producing new high school seniors
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  every single year. That is a thing that happens every single year. There
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  are new guys coming off the assembly line, and yeah, there are spots
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  open, but there are young guys. And I think in general you have
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  maybe seen you can't build your whole team out of the portal, and coaches
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  and programs have sort of figured that out. So the number of opportunities out
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  there is kind of limited, and the supply exceeds the demand in a lot
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  of cases. Prior is someone I would expect to have a find a safe
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  landing spot. This is not very much not a thing with him, but
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  you know, he he's someone who if I gave you, if I took
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  the four North Carolin, he's a North Carolina native. If I took the
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  four North Carolina ACC teams and gave you the field. How are you feeling
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  about that that in terms of a possible landing spot for Evan Pryor, you
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  know, I think we talked about this, you know, obviously privately in
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  the past, and I thought Apple Aacchio State would be a good spot.
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  It would be for him, and you would assume it would be less competition
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  close to home, obviously being a North Carolina guy, but that would seem
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  like a pretty good place to go. We're somewhere in there if he does
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  want to get back home. But also when you're three years in and you
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  haven't played, I think you want to play more than anything else. Oh
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  you can find if Colorado was like, we will play you, and you
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  know, just as an example, yes, yes, somewhere out west we'll
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  play you, then you go do that. But yeah, I'm still interested
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  to see what he can do. You know. We see a lot of
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  these names that you're excited to see what they can do at Ohio State,
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  and then they move on and you want to see what they can do there
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  because you didn't get to see them here. Whether it's you know, Jalen
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  Gill going to Boston College, and President of State Mookie Cooper going to Missouri.
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  Just guys that you know you wanted, you know, CAYLEB. Brown,
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  Yeah, poor guy, and I all right now, but you know
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  you envisioned them in this offense and you don't get to see it. So
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  it's like, well, I'd like to see what they could do, regardless,
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  to see them actually get to do what they want to do. Yeah,
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  I mean I go back a couple of years to Ryan Jacoby, the
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  offensive lineman who transferred to Pitt and then you looked up one day and it's
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  like, oh, there's Brian Jacobe starting in the ACC Championship Game and the
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  Beach Bowl, and you know they are and specific to the North Carolina region
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  they have had, you know, Jacoby Cowen transferred down there, legend Cavazos
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  transferred down to UNC as well. I go back to Jeremy Cash, the
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  former safety, and this is pre portal when you had to sit out,
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  you had to do it the hard way, and he really made a heck
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  of a career for himself at Duke. Is a safety there. So yeah,
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  definitely not then, guess not the last time we've heard here from Evan
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  Pryor but that is the news of the day. We will be back with
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  the other news of Theday, talking about Mookie Cooper and Missouri and the Ohios
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  date Cotton Boll. We'll have a live episode of the Buckeye Weekly podcast,
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  possibly not including Tony. We'll see how that all goes. But you know,
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  sometimes Kevin and I can talk without Tony every once in a while.
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  It's good. It's good to try new things. So we'll be back with
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  that a little later on. But thank you guys all for joining us.
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  Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow. M