Ohio State Football - Offensive Depth Chart Projection

all right uh folks I guess we will go right into the uh possible probable 2D roster uh Dave Biddle of 247 Sports on buck nuts uh displayed a uh depth chart Steve so I'll let you take it from here yeah I'm going to uh send you guys the link just in case you haven't seen it just uh let's see yeah you've got it up on the screen I yes um you know obviously the quarterback position we've delved into that running back he's got trayon Henderson or quinan Judkins which makes sense and I don't know if it'll be a territorial thing where they just start Henderson every week since he's the guy from the program or if uh Carlos llan and and Chip Kelly and Ryan day will look at the body of work each week and say this is uh Quin Sean Judkins week to start and honestly starting is you know everybody makes a deal about it but the important thing is producing and uh I think you're going to get into some games where both guys have gotten some first half carries to see which guys got the Rhythm which guy has got uh the ability to to make some things happen again against the opposing defense and then the second half it could be a case where they go where where whoever's done better in the first half gets three fours of the Reps in the second half and that's how the game ends so uh starting is one thing finishing is an entirely different thing and I wonder if quinon Judkins just because of his durability will be that finisher will be that punishing guy who puts teams away Dave doesn't mention Sam Williams Dixon in as a backup with James peoples but I fully expect Sam Williams Dixon to also play he was impressive to me I don't think peoples or Williams Dixon looked like they were freshman the three or four days I got to see and I don't think they backed down from The Challenge one bit and that isn't to say that they're not freshman and they're not going to fumble and they're not going to take a step the wrong way and create a broken play or you know something stupid is going to happen I mean it it it's just human nature uh you know the more reps you get the the more uh you know the better you are at execution but uh so yeah I see all four of these guys playing and um I think that Henderson and Judkins are gonna be getting every chance to to put their imprint on each game this season and uh you know whichever guy you know grabs grabs that Brass Ring on a given week that's the guy that's going to get rewarded I think I will just say Henderson has started every game that he's been healthy at Ohio State since like the second or third game of his career as a freshman so once once he established himself and he's been healthy enough he started but yeah I'm I'm with Steve it's it you if you if you start quinon I don't think that means anything to these guys um so I and they may want to just do that right away just to like kind of um just break the seal on somebody other than trayon starting just so you can if if it happens throughout the season but I'm expecting both guys to get between like 12 and 17 carries a game and they're both I think gonna be very similar in numbers so you know like I don't I don't consider one of them a backup I like there there are positions in this on this team where I don't consider somebody a backup to somebody else because they're both going to be needed like you know CJ Hicks and sunny Styles you know Sunny Styles has been with the one is CJ Hicks to backup maybe but he's got a role in other things as well so um this is just you know Cho starters good problem to have and I do wonder how often we'll see them together in the back field because um I don't think it'll be something that we talk about and it's like we never see it I do think we'll see it this year yeah he Scrolls on down goes right into the offensive line and uh Donovan Jackson obviously at left guard and Josh Simmons at left tackle he's got Seth mlin at Center his Right Guard is Tegra chabola or Carson Hinman and then the right tackle is Josh frier I think all that makes sense to me I think and this is just kind of me reading between the tea leaves and the lines here two things in that battle at Right Guard that kind of stood out to me um one is Carson hinsman was an iron Buck op and that really carries a lot of weight he's one of 10 players on the team that were an iron Buckeye in the offseason program according to Mickey morate so that that's one feather in his cap and the other one uh I believe Ryan day was asked directly about Tegra chabola and kind of where things are at with him he said well he in paraphrasing he said yeah he's got the size he's got the athletic ability but you have to do it on a consistent day in and day out basis and that's carrying out your assignment knowing your assignment mastering your assignment getting the job done and you just kind of read between the lines there that maybe there's been a little bit of a disconnect at times with Tegra and again this is overly simplistic maybe not knowing his assignment on a particular play not executing it perfectly whatever it might be but it just seemed and felt like Carson had just the slightest of edges even though he has a year Less in the program than Tegra shaba so it's kind of a an interesting thing shabo is in his third year well what is Hinman hinman's in his third year maybe they're both in the third year I don't know so uh to me uh that's interesting as far as the backups at all these spots I don't look at it as left and right and I don't think they do either I think think that if something were to happen to one of the tackles that possibly George Fitzpatrick might be the first guy in then Zen mahalski then maybe Luke Montgomery who's also repping at guard that seems to me to be the pecking order there and uh certainly we've kind of laid out what the pecking order is there at guard uh you know to a degree Austin srael maybe also in that picture but he's a Down the Line guy to me I think you've got you know let's let's say you play hinsman you got chabola and Montgomery who would play you know eight series before srael ever got on the field so just as an example so I don't look at the left and right thing and I don't think the coaches do either they're going to put the best player uh and they're cross training these guys left and right and they're gonna put the best player on the field and I think the the pecking order seems clear to me even if it's not to Justin fry and uh and Ryan day and Chip Kelly but uh you know that's kind of my reading between the tea leaves on that it it would be um much clearer if they weren't dealing with the virus that they've dealt with throughout the first two weeks of camp but I I'm I'm with Steve I think it's gonna be Carson Hinman at Right Guard and and it's been interesting the other interesting aspect of this is that Luke Montgomery has been the backup center and in in all of this and that they're trying to to me it looks like they're really trying to make him the back Center and not having to worry about Carson Hinman playing Right Guard if something happens to Seth mclock and now we got to move Carson over and now you've got to also bring in somebody new at R guard so looks like they're just trying to make it so if something happens they can just plug in one person and everybody else just keeps doing what they're doing and you put all this experience around a second-year guy like Luke Montgomery who is a tremendous athlete for for an offensive lineman you has a defensive end and tight end in his first couple of years in high school you know AA basketball player so he's got the athleticism that they like and I think it's been an interesting transition for him to Center and he's he's embraced that but can play essentially all five positions for Ohio State which is a nice swing guy to have there but yeah I I'm with you I'm still waiting to see who the number three tackle is completely and and honestly it may end up be in shaba or Montgomery if if things go wonky but I they're also really really working hard on getting George Fitzpatrick ready for that yep wide receivers um I think it's pretty clear Mecca bua Jeremiah Smith Carnell Tater the top three Brandon inis has had a really good start to preseason camp after missing the spring due to an injury and I think he's number four and then I think it is wide wide wide open for five six s after that uh he lists Bryson roggers red shirt freshman milin green the late en rolling true freshman de Marian Whitten who uh was recruited theoretically as a tight end 64 215 true freshman he's been repping with the wide receivers Jaden Ballard who's in like his fourth year and has really you know never had much of an opportunity on offense and he does not list Cojo an but he is also uh repping a wide receiver as well but uh you know zone six uh a little bit of a different look no Marvin Harrison Jr Mecca bua is the only uh known commodity although Jeremiah Smith number one overall Prospect in the country and coming off an incredible spring showing as a freshman looks like he's going to be right in there and Tate really start started uh preseason camp strong Tony I I uh I liked really in the few practices I got to see I like Tate you you probably have seen all five of the open practices I only got three of the five because I had family stuff going on the other two days but uh yeah those those that seems to be a pretty solid group right there and I like that they're cross trining guys at different spots so you can't just say oh Mach is gonna always line up in the slot or Jeremiah's always goingon to line up at split end or Tate's always gonna line up at flanker seems like they're cross trining at different spots and uh that can pay huge dividends as well yeah Mecca and Carnell take can play any of three receiver positions and they did it last year so you can move those guys around just like they did with Marvin Harrison last year who I think played about a third of his snaps in the slot and you move guys around try to find the matchups that you want but yeah Tate has been fantastic and we got to talk to him last week and he said you know he's just looking forward to showing what he can do and talking trash along with it so he's not a quiet guy and uh you know he he does he knows like people are talking about Jeremiah Smith and Mecca abuka though people aren't really talking about a mea abuka he knows he's like third in the pecking order of media attention but I I do Wonder like if you opened up the Big 10 wide receivers to a big 10 draft Carell Tate's not lasting much past five or six in in the draft and he might not make it that far yeah uh scrolling down tight end G Scott Jr fifth year senior 63243 sat behind Kate Stover the last two years and it looks like it's his time but not as Lee Corso would say not so fast my friend um I like G he's one of the spiritual leaders of the team but again consistency he's got to do it on every down every day every play every game basis and that's a big hurdle I think for him and any of these guys will Cas merri comes in from Ohio University big step up in class obviously going from the m American to the Big 10 you know he caught over 20 passes each of his first two years will he be able to to generate much in the terms of uh catching passes in the Big 10 galani Thurman great pass catching tight end can he Master the rest of the job which is blocking Patrick gerd I'm GNA say walk- on probably been awarded a scholarship Ryan Day won't tell us what Walk-Ons have scholarships because that's an important state secret to keep hidden from everybody and then Bennett Chrisman uh he's not listed coming off the year suspension for the U performance enhancing drugs or whatever it was that that kept him out last year uh he says an inadvertent uh you know thing that he took uh you could make the case that g Scott's not the best pass catcher and he's not the best blocker but he might be the best all around tight end I would think Thurman and Chrisman are probably the best pass catchers based on on what I've seen I would say casmer and gird are probably the best blockers so you got five guys and I think On Any Given play any of those five could be on the field and I'm giving Bennett Chrisman a little bit more benefit of the doubt than I think anybody else is uh but when I see him in practice going down in the middle of the field he makes plays so uh you've been there Tony as I said two more practices than I have what's your thought on the tight end position and am I am I selling g a little bit short or is he gonna be the every down guy well I think he's going to be the every down guy 60% of the time you know like willz Merck is gonna be in there as well because those have been the two guys that have been running with the ones and the twos and it's been galani Thurman Patrick G everybody else running with twos threes and so on um you know gilani's had some good moments but like Ryan day was asked about him last week or the week before and it was like one of the most critical answers and honest answers that Ryan day is given about a player in terms of what he still needs to do and what he's not doing yet it's the consistency it's you know yes there might be a nice catch or nice drive but there was a missed block or there's just a missed assignment so like he's still to me like everybody likes to talk about him but if you can't trust a player on every single snap you're not going to see him on very many snaps because in in a game any play can cost you a you know can it can be critical and you have to be able to trust those guys I think they trust G Scott and will casm the most right now and I think you'll see those two guys in 12 Personnel um but I do think there'll be times where it's will in there and then G Scott's on the sideline likewise there'll be times when it's G Scott out there and will cas's on the sideline it's been it's been a steep climb for Casmir to move from Ohio to Ohio State and it I think it think it caught him off guard a a little bit in the spring but now he's acclimated to what it is to play at Ohio State I think he he's starting to pick up speed and camp and I think we talked to Keenan Bailey in the tight ends next week and I wouldn't be surprised if they kind of echo that sentiment with Will asmer