Regulate with My Bucks, 9 Chips Gleam from One Ring: 2025 The Ohio State Buckeyes Title Defense Thread

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Trav said:
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Yep. The video looks like it “might” be an ankle roll, but not 100 on that. If it is an ankle, sit him until week one if necessary. I remember first practice last year and Tyliek hurt his ankle or knee. Keep these damn DTs out of first practice from here on out.
 
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Some interesting defensive developments, there’s a lot of talk of Downs playing nickel so far. He might be the one to play nickel a lot with Hartford and McClain playing back safety roles. Allows Downs to be closer tot he line a lot and still cover a lot of the field.
 
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Some practice tidbits from today:

  1. Julian Sayin pretty clearly had the best day today. There was some discrepancy in thoughts on who played best at certain times yesterday, but today Sayin was pretty clearly better.
  2. Bo Jackson just jumps out at you when you're watching them run team drills. He's obviously not going to start, but is going to make things happen when he gets his chance down the road. It's hard to judge the running game when they're in thud, but there is a lot of quickness and elusiveness in that room. Turbo Rogers and Bo Jackson are going to be a couple of good ones.
  3. They shuffled the offensive line around again today, but I'd have my money pretty solidly on Onianwa - Montgomery - Hinzman - Tshabola - Siereveld at this point. Josh Padilla is pretty clearly the No. 2 center, with Ian Moore and Josh Daniels at LT and RT. The second-team guards at one point were Jake Cook and Gabe Van Sickle, but I'd have a lower degree of confidence in them definitely being the twos right now.
  4. The defensive line had a really solid day. CJ Hicks flashed, Will Smith had a couple of plays where he got some good penetration, Kenyatta Jackson and Caden Curry both made an impact, and Zion Grady had a play where he bull-rushed Carter Lowe and pushed him straight back into the backfield. There is a lot of talent there.
  5. With Eddrick Houston still limited, we saw more of Tywone Malone and Jason Moore at 3-tech. Those guys still feel like they're more likely to be "just okay" than real impact players to me, but the interior of the offensive line is pretty good, so this can either be good news or bad news, depending on how you want to take it.
  6. Arvell Reese had a nice day. You just see and feel him around the ball constantly.
  7. The corners were a little mixed up at times today, with Bryce West playing outside at times, and Jermaine Mathews in the slot some. Davison Igbinosun has had a really solid camp. Caleb Downs has been at nickel more than I would have expected, which could just be them trying to have as many options for him as possible, or could be an indication that they really do like both of those other safeties (Hartford and McClain) and could be thinking seriously about some kind of three-safety looks.
  8. I don't have any actual stats on this, but Jackson Courville sure seems to make every field goal attempt I see him take. I've been trying to watch him moreso than Jayden Fielding, so this isn't a backhanded shot at Fielding, or an indication that he's had a bad camp. But when I've looked over at the kickers and seen Courville, he's been really good.
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