Where Ohio State's 2026 football roster should be better and worse after transfer portal & NFL moves
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What are the recent changes to Ohio State's football roster?
Welcome back to the Bill & Doug Show. Time to catch up on all the ins and outs of the Ohio State football roster. Doug LaMaurice and Bill Landis. You can find us on Substack. BillAndDougOSU.substack.com. Landis, we have not talked about this on this feed. Let's go. Offensive line. What's in? What's out? We're just going to run through all the position groups and just talk about what's in, what's out, what's the balance, right? It feels like this roster, as we record this on Thursday afternoon for the Ohio State Buckeyes in 2026, is mostly...
taken shape for the most part yeah i think um you know there's there's still you know another day or so for guys to go into the portal and a couple spots where i think ohio state was still looking to add um but it's starting it's starting to settle yes famous last words but i don't want to wait quite all the way
Because we haven't checked in on a bit on this. And it's just... But it's going to be done. It's going to be done soon. So it's going to be done. But we were even waiting for some of the NFL stuff to double check on. Like, okay, guys, are they staying?
How does the offensive line look for the 2026 season?
Because some of that's as important as anything. And we'll start in the offensive line. where there's nobody in, in the portal on this offensive line bill, but they are have, they do have three offensive linemen who announced that they were staying at Ohio state. And whether you, we thought that Austin Sarabelle, Carson Hensman, or Luke Montgomery were real threats to go to the NFL. They concerted it enough to announce that they weren't. So that's three starters back. And again, If they hadn't gone three for three with those starters back, they might have had to think about adding a starter level offensive lineman. So this is one of these things, again, where retention is part of it. Again, for the people who read us or follow us on Substack, we did a roster building thing in September, and the three parts of it were the transfer portal, recruiting, and retention.
And while Ohio state, as we speak has 30 guys in the portal and they've brought in 12 retention also applies to like guys not going to the NFL. And we talked about the 2024 team retention meant that meant after the 2023 season, they probably had 10 guys with NFL decisions to went to the NFL eight stayed to form the heartbeat of a national championship team. This is the kind of retention that you don't want to lose track of in the portal madness.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think that's right. I don't know... I don't think Luke Montgomery and Carson Hinsman's NFL prospects were... probably super enticing compared to what ohio state would be able to offer them i do i do wonder about austin saraville like there were some draft folks talking about him a little bit maybe even though he was a one-year starter i think perhaps had the opportunity to be like a day two guard maybe like a late third round pick a guard fourth round pick a guard um so that's uh that's a pretty big piece i think for ohio state to keep back obviously he was he was our best offensive lineman last year we all know that so I know people were not totally enamored with the play of Luke Montgomery and Carson Hinsman throughout the entire season.
I thought they had good moments and bad. But to keep those three in the fold and guarantee that you're going to have three pretty old, pretty experienced guys there and then kind of figure out the rest around them, I think is a pretty good spot for Ohio State to be in. And I know that Ohio State, as it just looked at the portal, did not feel that there were clear upgrades over any of those guys. Now that was before Jordan Seton entered, but I don't think Ohio state is going to be in the Jordan Seton sweepstakes. So keeping those three at Ohio state was a huge priority for, for the black guys in the off season.
Yeah. That's what, you know, Jordan Seton, former five-star recruit who a lot of people thought was going to go to Ohio state. And then Colorado kind of swooped in at the last minute and grabbed him. And he's been a two-year starter at Colorado.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the recent changes to Ohio State's football roster?
0:06–1:09
2
How does the offensive line look for the 2026 season?
1:09–5:51
3
What impact does player retention have on the roster?
5:51–35:22
4
How is the tight end position shaping up for 2026?
35:22–56:48
5
Who are the key running backs for Ohio State in 2026?
56:48–1:07:11
6
What challenges does the receiver group face this season?
1:07:11–1:13:22
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