Ohio State football team has major depth issues at RB after latest transfer loss​

The Ohio State football team lost a running back to the transfer portal and that seriously screws up their depth at the position.

This season, the Ohio State football team has benefitted from having two great running backs. Both TreVeyon Henderson and Quinshon Judkins have had great seasons for the Buckeyes. They have shared the load equally and have helped the Buckeyes make the CFP semifinals.

Behind them, the Ohio State Buckeyes don't have much depth. The only two other scholarship running backs who are healthy are James Peoples and Sam-Williams Dixon. Henderson will leave next season to go to the NFL and it looks like Judkins will do the same.

Ohio State did get C.J. Donaldson Jr. to transfer in to help with depth issues at that spot. Still, that leaves them dangerously thin at running back. They just got thinner because the Buckeyes are now losing Williams-Dixon to the transfer portal.

Ohio State football player Sam Williams-Dixon has entered the transfer portal​

Williams-Dixon, who was just a freshman, has decided to leave the Buckeyes. That means that they are likely down to just Peoples and Donaldson Jr. as backs who have significant carries at the collegiate level. They will have TC Caffey back after his second knee injury, but that's not a lot of depth.

The Buckeyes will be adding Bo Jackson and Anthony "Turbo" Rogers as freshmen in the incoming recruiting class, but they obviously don't have experience. Ohio State is going to have to rely on some unproven guys to get significant carries next year. Donaldson Jr. could start if Judkins heads to the NFL.

As for Williams-Dixon, he leaves after carrying the ball just seven times for 53 yards as a freshman this season. He must think that the freshman backs coming in behind him are more talented. That would be the only reason why he would decide to leave at this point.

Just sayin':
1. It would probably be nice to get another (proven) RB out of the transfer portal for 2025.
2. On December 9, 2024, Chip Trayanum announced that he would enter the transfer portal for the third time and ultimately committed to Toledo. I just wonder if Ohio State tried to get him back.

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Former Duquesne Linebacker Ty Howard, An All-Conference Player in 2024, Transferring to Ohio State​

Ohio State has added an all-conference linebacker from the transfer portal.

Ty Howard, who earned first-team All-NEC honors at Duquesne this season, announced his signing with Ohio State on Sunday.

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Howard joins the Buckeyes after recording 52 tackles, seven tackles for loss, four sacks, three interceptions, four pass breakups and a fumble recovery for the Dukes in just nine games in 2024. He recorded takeaways in four straight games, including a 40-yard interception return for a touchdown against St. Francis.

The Howard File​

• Year: Redshirt Junior
• Size: 6-0/200
• Pos: LB
• Previous School: Duquesne (2022-24)
• Stats: 52 tackles, 7 TFL, 4 sacks, 3 INT, 4 PBU, 1 FR in 2024

Howard is the older brother of incoming freshman running back Bo Jackson. Both Howard and Jackson arrived at Ohio State to start their time as Buckeyes this weekend as midyear enrollees.

Ohio State has not formally announced Howard’s signing, but Villa Angela-St. Joseph coach Jeff Rotsky told Eleven Warriors that Howard is receiving a scholarship from Ohio State. Under the new roster rules that will go into effect in 2025, college football teams will be able to have up to 105 players on scholarship, though Ohio State is still expected to have some walk-ons on its roster.

Howard brings two years of eligibility to Ohio State after spending three seasons at Duquesne.
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Ty Howard

• Position Linebacker
• Height 6-0
• Weight 200
• Class Junior
• Hometown Cleveland, OH
• High School Villa Angela-St. Joseph

AS A JUNIOR (2024)

• First Team All-Conference
• Led all NEC linebackers and ranked second overall with three interceptions ... Had four takeaways in four straight games (40yd pick six at Saint Francis, fumble recovery at Stonehill and interception in red zone vs. Mercyhurst and RMU) ... Earned NEC Defensive Player of the Week after the red zone INT and a team-high eight tackles versus RMU and was a three-time NEC Prime Performer ... Had five or more tackles in seven of nine games played ... Tied a career high with eight tackles three times ... Added four sacks, with one in each of the last three games, and 7.0 tackles for loss to go with 52 total tackles on the year.

AS A SOPHOMORE (2023)

• Played in four games with three starts
• Made 16 tackles and had two five-tackle games (vs. Edinboro and at Coastal Carolina)
• Charted five tackles, 1.5 TFLs, one sack, and a fumble recovery in season-opening win over Edinboro

AS A FRESHMAN (2022)

• Appeared in six games at linebacker
• Totaled 10 tackles, including 2.5 sacks, and had one quarterback hurry
• Recorded four tackles (two solo) vs. Merrimack
• Had two sacks at Youngstown State

BEFORE DUQUESNE

• All-Ohio Division IV first team linebacker by the Ohio High School Athletic Association
• NE Lake Division Defensive Player of the Year
• Finished his senior year with 115 tackles, including 23 tackles for loss, nine sacks and 10 quarterback pressures in nine games
• Also played running back and served as the team's long snapper
• Began his high school career at Euclid before transferring to Villa Angela-St. Joseph as a senior
• Also played baseball and track
• Honor Roll student

PERSONAL

• Son of Andria and Lamar Jackson
• Has four siblings
• Brother, Omari, plays football at Lake Erie College

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The first hoops game of 2025 features the Spartans coming to Columbus.

ohio st vs oregon

This is the BMW thread. Land of the free, home of the brave where negativity is the rule and The Lunatics rage.

For those not present over the last month, this thread is for those that want to Bitch/Moan/Whine (BMW) during the Cotton Bowl.
I recommend that we nominate @AuTX Buckeye and @Bestbuck36 as thread monitors.
Tagging @BB73 @LordJeffBuck if they feel this is worthy of a pinned thread.
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It's 2025 and Michigan still sucks!*

* And they cheat, too!

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Other programs tampering with UConn's players, Mora says​

UConn coach Jim Mora plans to "pursue all avenues" against teams that tamper with Huskies players, warning such teams to "think hard before you tamper with our players."

Mora posted on social media Monday, hours before star defensive lineman Pryce Yates re-entered the transfer portal. Yates, a three-year starter with 29.5 career tackles for loss, initially entered the portal Dec. 13 before withdrawing Dec. 21 and posting a social media graphic that indicated his intention to return for the 2025 season.

Yates, a redshirt junior from San Antonio, Texas, earned defensive MVP honors Saturday in the Wasabi Fenway Bowl, recording a sack and three tackles for loss in UConn's 27-14 win against North Carolina. Yates led UConn with 14 tackles for loss in 2023 and had 12.5 career sacks, including 3.5 this season despite being limited to seven games because of injury.

"A simple note to the schools and coaches that have blatantly broken @NCAAFootball rules by tampering with our players in the last 24 hours," Mora wrote Monday on X. "We do know who you are, we will pursue all avenues to hold you accountable. We are excited that we've built a program where coaches have to cheat to beat us and we will protect that program. Think hard before you tamper with our players."

Mora later wrote in response to a post that he doesn't know how to fix the tampering issue in college football, but that "we will expose any program and coach that violates" NCAA rules. He added: "I'm 100 percent against grown men cheating the rules and teaching players horrible life lessons."

Just sayin':

1) With NIL and the transfer portal, college football recruiting has radically changed. Many players' loyalty is now to the most NIL dollars and not to any specific team. I seriously doubt that the NCAA knows how to fix it either (other than just abolishing the tampering rules....).

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Re: "I'm 100 percent against grown men cheating the rules and teaching players horrible life lessons."

2) I'm just thankful/glad that the NCAA (as incompetent as they are) actually caught the "cheats up north" for cheating the the last 3 years.

iowa vs missouri

The Longhorns visit the ‘Shoe for the first time since their Vince Young-led 2005 team won 25-22 on their way to the National Title. There is a chance this will be a matchup of the preseason #1 and #2 teams.

The Buckeyes evened the series by winning at DKR in 2006, with James Laurinaitis, Teddy Ginn, and Troy Smith leading the way.

Prior to the glorious CFP Cotton Bowl game last January, the only other matchup was a 21-24 Fiesta Bowl loss in Glendale after the 2008 season, when Terrelle Pryor was a freshman and Colt McCoy was a junior who had just won the Walter Camp POY Award.

The most recent Buckeye victory, sealed by Jack Sawyer‘s 83-yard play for the ages, once again tied the series at 2-2.

The Buckeyes host a first-time opponent, FCS Grambling State, who play in the SWAC. The Tigers were coached by the legendary Eddie Robinson, who led them to 408 victories from 1941 to 1997 (minus the WWII years of 1942/43).

Grambling has more NFL Hall of Famers than any of these schools:

Auburn, Clemson, Florida, Ole Miss, Tennessee, and Texas A&M.

When defending MAC Champion Ohio comes to play in Ohio Stadium, are they not the home team?

The most recent visit was a 43-7 Buckeye win in 2010.

The Buckeyes get a BYE after playing only 3 games.

Following a Bye week, the Buckeyes head to Seattle to face the Huskies as a conference opponent for the first time.

The most recent meeting was the Rose Bowl following the 2018 season, a 28-23 Buckeye victory in Urban Meyer’s final game as head coach.

The last time tOSU went to Husky Stadium resulted in a 33-20 Buckeye victory in 2007.

The Golden Gophers visit the ‘Shoe trying to snap the Buckeyes streak of 13 straight in the series. That most recent Minny win was in Columbus during John Cooper’s final season in 2000.