On this Buckeye Talk it's time for another draft, but this time with a special guest.
Aaron Hake, who won the Buckeye Talk NCAA Tournament bracket contest, is collecting his prize by joining Nathan Baird, Doug Lesmerises and Stephen Means to draft the 12 true freshmen that will help Ohio State football the most in the 2021 season. This is not a draft about career projections. This is a draft about helping in the fall. Each person made three picks, which brought the draft to 12 players, so get ready to find out where quarterback Kyle McCord, receivers Marvin Harrison Jr. and Emeka Egbuka, running back TreVeyon Henderson and defenders like Jack Sawyer, Denzel Burke and Jantzen Dunn were picked in the draft.
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Drafting the 12 true freshmen that will help Ohio State the most this football season

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The 2024 NFL Draft is now in the review mirror as we focus on a 2025 class sure to be filled with Ohio State football players following a year where only four were drafted.
The Buckeyes had only one first-round pick this spring, but could they be on the verge of not only setting a program record, but the national record in 2025? On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Nathan Baird and Andrew Gillis explore the 2025 NFL Draft and project the number of first-round picks OSU could have.
They also compare the program's NFL Draft development to when Jim Tressel and Urban Meyer were in charge to see whether Ryan Day is already ahead of the curve. Plus, predicting when Ohio State will surpass 100 first-round draft picks.
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How may Ohio State players will go in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft?

The 2024 NFL Draft is over, and on this Buckeye Talk episode, Stephen Means and Nathan Baird wrap up the final picks for Ohio State.
OSU just experienced its smallest draft number in over a decade, but could it come with a silver lining? Following a year where only four players heard their name called — of the nine hoping to — the program could be gearing up for fireworks in 2025 with one more thing to check off over the next year.
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What Ohio State football's small 2024 NFL Draft class tells us about the potential fireworks on the way

For the third straight year, Ohio State football has produced a first-round NFL Draft pick.
Garrett Wilson and Chris Olave started the trend in 2022 followed by Jaxon Smith-Njigba in 2023. Now Marvin Harrion Jr. has joined them going higher than an OSU wide receiver has ever gone as the No. 4 pick to the Arizona Cardinals.
Harrison will join Paris Johnson Jr. as Buckeyes-turned-Cardinals first-round picks giving Kyler Murray a true No. 1 wide receiver. He also serves as a historic accomplishment for Brian Hartline’s wide receiver room. A room that might not even be close to being done putting out first-rounders.
On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means and Nathan Baird break down what Harrison being drafted means for the program, what Arizona is getting and what could be coming down the line. Plus a reaction to the final time J.J. McCarthy could show Ryan Day up for picking Kyle McCord over him as Ohio State’s future quarterback.
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What Ohio State football's latest first-round NFL Draft pick says about its future

The 2024 NFL Draft has arrived with a few Ohio State football players expected to be taken over the next three days.
That means it's time for our annual Buckeye Talk NFL Draft prediction pod. OSU has nine players in this year's draft and Stephen Means, Nathan Baird and Andrew Gillis reveal how many of those players will hear their name's called.
Then they wrap things up by looking forward at a 2025 class which explains why the number in 2024 is so low.
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Predicting where Marvin Harrison Jr. and other Ohio State Buckeyes will be picked in the 2024 NFL Draft

The NFL Draft kicks off on Thursday night and we're getting you ready with a full first round mock draft.
For the third year in a row, the Orange and Brown Talk and Buckeye Talk crews got together and made every pick in the first round. Nathan Baird, Tim Bielik, Andrew Gillis, Dan Labbe, Stephen Means and Jimmy Watkins were all assigned teams and they worked their way through the first 32 picks, making trades and filling needs along the way.
While the first pick was a no-brainer, things got interesting after that and included discussions on Justin Fields in Pittsburgh and which Buckeyes player could be the first to go in their class next year.
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Drafting the 12 true freshmen that will help Ohio State the most this football season

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