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LGHL You’re Nuts: Which Ohio State Buckeye do you want to see win a Super Bowl next?
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You’re Nuts: Which Ohio State Buckeye do you want to see win a Super Bowl next?
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When the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX last month, Parris Campbell became the 33rd Ohio State Buckeye to win a Super Bowl. Campbell became the first former Buckeye since Darron Lee in 2020 to be on the 53-man roster of the winning team. While Lee was on the roster of the Chiefs, who beat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV, he didn’t play any snaps in the game. Since Campbell did get on the field on Sunday night, he was the first Ohio State alum since Nate Ebner and John Simon in 2019 to play in the Super Bowl and win.
With the NFL officially in the offseason, we can start looking ahead to the 2025-26 seasonl. There are already mock drafts, power rankings, and Super Bowl predictions floating around even though we still have free agency, the 2025 NFL Draft, and next season’s schedule release upcoming in the future. Rosters for every team around the league are going to look a lot different from what we saw when the regular season ended in early January.
Today. we want to know what Buckeye you want to see win the Super Bowl next. In some cases it could be because you want to see a Buckeye currently on your favorite team win a Super Bowl, and you are confident they’ll be on your favorite team when the season starts in September, like Terry McLaurin since it’s obvious he is in the long-term plans in Washington. Or it could be a player you want to see win a Super Bowl because you’ve loved them as a player since they arrived in Columbus. J.K. Dobbins would be a perfect example since he has come back from a number of injuries since turning pro and deserves to win it all.
Unless you’re new to the program, by now you should know that I’m a Buffalo Bills fan. Curtis Samuel is currently under contract with the Bills after signing a three-year, $24 million dollar contract during the offseason. Since I’m still reeling from Buffalo losing to Kansas City in the playoffs for what seems like the 472nd straight season, I have no idea if the Bills are going to bring back Samuel for the upcoming season, or if they have some sort of cap-friendly out in his contract that will result in the team cutting Samuel.
I’d love for the Bills to keep Samuel since I’ll welcome as many Buckeyes as possible in Buffalo. Just imagine the joy Samuel felt when he celebrated winning a national championship as a freshman at Ohio State to cap off the 2014 season. That would pale in comparison to the kind of folk hero he’d be in Buffalo if he was part of the team that finally was able to win the big one after failing so many times in the Super Bowl in the early 90s, and having suffered so much playoff heartbreak over the last five seasons.
Even if Samuel isn’t in Buffalo’s plans next season, I’d love to see him win a Super Bowl in a lot of other locations that aren’t Kansas City or anywhere else in the AFC East. Samuel had one of the most iconic touchdowns in Ohio State history when he scored in double overtime to beat Michigan back in 2016. When properly utilized, Samuel is still an electric player. I could definitely see him scoring a touchdown that leaves everyone talking in next year’s Super Bowl if he and hopefully the Buffalo Bills are a part of the big game next February.
I might be taking the easy way out, but I’m going to just side with everybody on the New York Jets. Thanks to the free agent signing of quarterback Justin Fields, the J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets are now the home of Fields, his former wide receiver Garrett Wilson, center Josh Myers, and tight end Jeremy Ruckert.
Of course, I will be rooting for all four of them, but if I have to pick one to meet the standards of this exercise, I will go with Fields. Since joining the league, he has found himself in two situations that didn’t maximize his skill set. In his first few seasons, he was playing for the Chicago Bears, whose ineptitude speaks for itself.
Then, as a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, he opened the season with back-to-back wins before being replaced by Russell Wilson when he was healthy enough to play. In many ways, Justin Fields is responsible for the resurgence of Ohio State football, so I want to see him succeed in the NFL.
So, now that over one-third of the Jets’ offense is going to be Buckeyes, it seems like a great time to go all in on rooting for Fields.
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Brett Ludwiczak via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
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Your (almost) daily dose of good-natured, Ohio State banter.
When the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX last month, Parris Campbell became the 33rd Ohio State Buckeye to win a Super Bowl. Campbell became the first former Buckeye since Darron Lee in 2020 to be on the 53-man roster of the winning team. While Lee was on the roster of the Chiefs, who beat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV, he didn’t play any snaps in the game. Since Campbell did get on the field on Sunday night, he was the first Ohio State alum since Nate Ebner and John Simon in 2019 to play in the Super Bowl and win.
With the NFL officially in the offseason, we can start looking ahead to the 2025-26 seasonl. There are already mock drafts, power rankings, and Super Bowl predictions floating around even though we still have free agency, the 2025 NFL Draft, and next season’s schedule release upcoming in the future. Rosters for every team around the league are going to look a lot different from what we saw when the regular season ended in early January.
Today. we want to know what Buckeye you want to see win the Super Bowl next. In some cases it could be because you want to see a Buckeye currently on your favorite team win a Super Bowl, and you are confident they’ll be on your favorite team when the season starts in September, like Terry McLaurin since it’s obvious he is in the long-term plans in Washington. Or it could be a player you want to see win a Super Bowl because you’ve loved them as a player since they arrived in Columbus. J.K. Dobbins would be a perfect example since he has come back from a number of injuries since turning pro and deserves to win it all.
Today’s question: Which Ohio State alum do you want to see win the Super Bowl next?
We’d love to hear your choices. Either respond to us on Twitter at @Landgrant33 or leave your choice in the comments.
Brett’s answer: Curtis Samuel
Unless you’re new to the program, by now you should know that I’m a Buffalo Bills fan. Curtis Samuel is currently under contract with the Bills after signing a three-year, $24 million dollar contract during the offseason. Since I’m still reeling from Buffalo losing to Kansas City in the playoffs for what seems like the 472nd straight season, I have no idea if the Bills are going to bring back Samuel for the upcoming season, or if they have some sort of cap-friendly out in his contract that will result in the team cutting Samuel.
I’d love for the Bills to keep Samuel since I’ll welcome as many Buckeyes as possible in Buffalo. Just imagine the joy Samuel felt when he celebrated winning a national championship as a freshman at Ohio State to cap off the 2014 season. That would pale in comparison to the kind of folk hero he’d be in Buffalo if he was part of the team that finally was able to win the big one after failing so many times in the Super Bowl in the early 90s, and having suffered so much playoff heartbreak over the last five seasons.
Even if Samuel isn’t in Buffalo’s plans next season, I’d love to see him win a Super Bowl in a lot of other locations that aren’t Kansas City or anywhere else in the AFC East. Samuel had one of the most iconic touchdowns in Ohio State history when he scored in double overtime to beat Michigan back in 2016. When properly utilized, Samuel is still an electric player. I could definitely see him scoring a touchdown that leaves everyone talking in next year’s Super Bowl if he and hopefully the Buffalo Bills are a part of the big game next February.
Matt’s answer: Everyone on the Jets
I might be taking the easy way out, but I’m going to just side with everybody on the New York Jets. Thanks to the free agent signing of quarterback Justin Fields, the J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets are now the home of Fields, his former wide receiver Garrett Wilson, center Josh Myers, and tight end Jeremy Ruckert.
Of course, I will be rooting for all four of them, but if I have to pick one to meet the standards of this exercise, I will go with Fields. Since joining the league, he has found himself in two situations that didn’t maximize his skill set. In his first few seasons, he was playing for the Chicago Bears, whose ineptitude speaks for itself.
Then, as a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, he opened the season with back-to-back wins before being replaced by Russell Wilson when he was healthy enough to play. In many ways, Justin Fields is responsible for the resurgence of Ohio State football, so I want to see him succeed in the NFL.
So, now that over one-third of the Jets’ offense is going to be Buckeyes, it seems like a great time to go all in on rooting for Fields.
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2028 NJ DL Jackson Vaughn (Verbal Offer)
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LGHL Ohio State dealing with injuries heading into March Madness, but there is good news
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Ohio State dealing with injuries heading into March Madness, but there is good news
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The good and bad news on the injury front heading into NCAA Tournament week.
At this time of the season, with the NCAA Tournament tipping off this week, there are no teams in the country where every player is 100% healthy. Even if a program has all of their players active and ready to play, it’s impossible to expect that players are not playing through some bumps and bruises following an unrelenting four months of never ending basketball.
For Ohio State women’s basketball, some of the injuries are more evident than others. Against the UCLA Bruins in the Big Ten Tournament semifinal, two important injuries were evident when the Buckeyes’ top two scorers left the game in the third quarter.
Junior forward Cotie McMahon went up for a rebound after halftime and landed hard on the court, injuring her right arm. Soon after, McMahon made it to the free throw line and the forward’s shots could not make it to the basket and McMahon ended the quarter holding her wrist.
Freshman point guard Jaloni Cambridge had a bad ankle sprain when she landed on the foot of UCLA guard Elina Aarnisalo. Cambridge stayed in the game until the whistle blew, but could not put her full weight on the ankle.
McMahon and Cambridge scored 16.6 points and 15.4 points respectively for head coach Kevin McGuff’s Buckeyes, so the idea of missing them puts a team already playing a nine-player rotation in a bit of a pickle. Fortunately for Ohio State and their fans, McGuff gave a positive prognosis Sunday after the NCAA announced the Buckeyes as one of the No. 4 seeds hosting the first two rounds of March Madness.
“They should be fine. They both got kind of a little bit banged up, but I think the week in this past week, not having any games was really helpful,” said McGuff. “So I feel like by the time we play on Friday, they should be good to go.”
Throughout the season, when the Buckeyes needed someone to take over a game, it was usually McMahon or Cambridge. One of the two led Ohio State in scoring in 15 of the Buckeyes’ 20 games against Big Ten opponents, including a 33-point game for Cambridge over the No. 23 Michigan State Spartans and McMahon scoring 18 points in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal against the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Now, McGuff can breathe a sigh of relief, should both players be ready to go on Friday when the Buckeyes open their NCAA Tournament against the Montana State Bobcats.
However, there is one injury not as evident that does not have the same positive bill of health.
Freshman center Elsa Lemmilä came on strong for the Buckeyes in January, increasing her minutes off the bench behind forward Ajae Petty, to the point where the 6-foot-6 Finn might have made it difficult on McGuff to continue leaving her out of the starting lineup. Then, the minutes and effectiveness started to diminish.
After playing focused basketball for 10 appearances, to the point where the freshman had an argument for Big Ten Sixth Player of the Year contention, Lemmilä was not moving the same way. Players were beating the freshman who seemed to have at least one or two key blocks in a game and Lemmilä was trying to catch up to players in the paint.
McGuff had a different prognosis for Lemmilä.
“She’s got a little foot issue going and I don’t know what her availability is going to be this week yet,” said McGuff. “So we’ll see how she does this week and how she’s feeling. We’ll get a little bit later into the week.”
There’s also the matter of another freshman off the bench in shooting guard Ava Watson. The guard out of Georgia won Big Ten Freshman of the Week following a 16-point game where Watson went 4-of-4 from beyond the arc. In that same game, Watson sprained her ankle in the fourth quarter and has not seen a game minute since the injury.
For the good report of McMahon and Cambridge and the bad response for Lemmilä, Watson’s availability sits somewhere in the middle.
“She’s made really good progress,” said McGuff. “We’re not there yet to be able to say for sure, but I think there’s a good chance.”
Ohio State played with a 10-player roster this season, with four players missing every game with a potential redshirt at the end of the campaign. Watson has not played since Feb. 13 and it does not sound promising for Lemmilä. That means an already small pool of players shrinks further at the worst possible time.
That means more time on the court for graduate senior guard Madison Greene and forward Eboni Walker. Playing in their final postseasons as college athletes, McGuff may leverage the pair more, especially Walker who McGuff has kept mostly on the bench this season until the last few games. For Greene, she is already earning more minutes through Watson’s injury and foul issues for Cambridge that plagued the end of her freshman regular season.
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ThomasCostello via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images
The good and bad news on the injury front heading into NCAA Tournament week.
At this time of the season, with the NCAA Tournament tipping off this week, there are no teams in the country where every player is 100% healthy. Even if a program has all of their players active and ready to play, it’s impossible to expect that players are not playing through some bumps and bruises following an unrelenting four months of never ending basketball.
For Ohio State women’s basketball, some of the injuries are more evident than others. Against the UCLA Bruins in the Big Ten Tournament semifinal, two important injuries were evident when the Buckeyes’ top two scorers left the game in the third quarter.
Junior forward Cotie McMahon went up for a rebound after halftime and landed hard on the court, injuring her right arm. Soon after, McMahon made it to the free throw line and the forward’s shots could not make it to the basket and McMahon ended the quarter holding her wrist.
Freshman point guard Jaloni Cambridge had a bad ankle sprain when she landed on the foot of UCLA guard Elina Aarnisalo. Cambridge stayed in the game until the whistle blew, but could not put her full weight on the ankle.
McMahon and Cambridge scored 16.6 points and 15.4 points respectively for head coach Kevin McGuff’s Buckeyes, so the idea of missing them puts a team already playing a nine-player rotation in a bit of a pickle. Fortunately for Ohio State and their fans, McGuff gave a positive prognosis Sunday after the NCAA announced the Buckeyes as one of the No. 4 seeds hosting the first two rounds of March Madness.
“They should be fine. They both got kind of a little bit banged up, but I think the week in this past week, not having any games was really helpful,” said McGuff. “So I feel like by the time we play on Friday, they should be good to go.”
Throughout the season, when the Buckeyes needed someone to take over a game, it was usually McMahon or Cambridge. One of the two led Ohio State in scoring in 15 of the Buckeyes’ 20 games against Big Ten opponents, including a 33-point game for Cambridge over the No. 23 Michigan State Spartans and McMahon scoring 18 points in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal against the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Now, McGuff can breathe a sigh of relief, should both players be ready to go on Friday when the Buckeyes open their NCAA Tournament against the Montana State Bobcats.
However, there is one injury not as evident that does not have the same positive bill of health.
Freshman center Elsa Lemmilä came on strong for the Buckeyes in January, increasing her minutes off the bench behind forward Ajae Petty, to the point where the 6-foot-6 Finn might have made it difficult on McGuff to continue leaving her out of the starting lineup. Then, the minutes and effectiveness started to diminish.
After playing focused basketball for 10 appearances, to the point where the freshman had an argument for Big Ten Sixth Player of the Year contention, Lemmilä was not moving the same way. Players were beating the freshman who seemed to have at least one or two key blocks in a game and Lemmilä was trying to catch up to players in the paint.
McGuff had a different prognosis for Lemmilä.
“She’s got a little foot issue going and I don’t know what her availability is going to be this week yet,” said McGuff. “So we’ll see how she does this week and how she’s feeling. We’ll get a little bit later into the week.”
There’s also the matter of another freshman off the bench in shooting guard Ava Watson. The guard out of Georgia won Big Ten Freshman of the Week following a 16-point game where Watson went 4-of-4 from beyond the arc. In that same game, Watson sprained her ankle in the fourth quarter and has not seen a game minute since the injury.
For the good report of McMahon and Cambridge and the bad response for Lemmilä, Watson’s availability sits somewhere in the middle.
“She’s made really good progress,” said McGuff. “We’re not there yet to be able to say for sure, but I think there’s a good chance.”
Ohio State played with a 10-player roster this season, with four players missing every game with a potential redshirt at the end of the campaign. Watson has not played since Feb. 13 and it does not sound promising for Lemmilä. That means an already small pool of players shrinks further at the worst possible time.
That means more time on the court for graduate senior guard Madison Greene and forward Eboni Walker. Playing in their final postseasons as college athletes, McGuff may leverage the pair more, especially Walker who McGuff has kept mostly on the bench this season until the last few games. For Greene, she is already earning more minutes through Watson’s injury and foul issues for Cambridge that plagued the end of her freshman regular season.
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2026 NC WR Gordon Sellars (Clemson Signee)
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2025-2026 Ohio State Men's Basketball
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Just sayin': Well, for starters Micah Parrish (Senior), Ques Glover (Senior), and Meechie Johnson (quit team) definitely won't be back. I'll also say Kalen Etzler (who has been here 4 years; but redshirted one) won't be back either.
Can Ohio State return the "core players", i.e. Bruce Thornton, Devin Royal, Evan Mahaffey, and John Mobley? I'll say that they also want to keep Ivan Njegovan, Colin White, Taison Chatman, and Austin Parks all who have potential to develop and be significant contributors.
Just the fact that they finished 2024/2025 2-5 and declined the Las Vegas tournament leads me to believe that there was some unhappiness/disenstion on the team. Does Bruce thornton go pro? Do any of the above transfer out?
The other big questions are:
1) What about Aaron Bradshaw and Sean Stewart. They were major disappointments considering the amount of NIL money they probably received, etc. I'm guessing that they just hit the transfer portial again this year.
2) Can Diebler get some impact players for 2025/2026 out of the portial?
Ohio State Buckeyes Roster 2024-25
Team Roster| Name | POS | HT | WT | Class | Birthplace | |
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Colby Baumann | G | 6' 3" | 185 lbs | JR | Houston, TX |
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Aaron Bradshaw | F | 7' 1" | 215 lbs | SO | Rahway, NJ |
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Taison Chatman | G | 6' 4" | 175 lbs | SO | Minneapolis, MN |
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F | 6' 8" | 185 lbs | JR | Van Wert, OH | |
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G | 6' 0" | 185 lbs | SR | Knoxville, TN | |
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G | 6' 2" | 185 lbs | SR | Cleveland, OH | |
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G | 6' 6" | 200 lbs | JR | Cincinnati, OH | |
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John Mobley Jr. | G | 6' 1" | 175 lbs | FR | Reynoldsburg, OH |
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Braylen Nash | G | 6' 4" | 180 lbs | FR | New Albany, OH |
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Ivan Njegovan | C | 7' 1" | 250 lbs | FR | Otocac, Croatia |
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C | 6' 10" | 260 lbs | SO | Saint Marys, OH | |
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G | 6' 6" | 205 lbs | SR | Detroit, MI | |
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Devin Royal | F | 6' 6" | 220 lbs | SO | Pickerington, OH |
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Sean Stewart | F | 6' 9" | 220 lbs | SO | Windermere, FL |
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Bruce Thornton | G | 6' 2" | 215 lbs | JR | Fairburn, GA |
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Colin White | F | 6' 6" | 205 lbs | FR | Ottawa, OH |
Update: Evan Mahaffey transferring.
