2016 Depth Chart

[RobotParty]

The Buckeyes released their first 2016 depth chart on ohiostatebuckeyes.com this afternoon. While it's listed as "unofficial", this is coming from their team page, so I imagine there's quite a bit of truth to it.

link: http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools...pdf/2016-17/depth_chart_event/depth_chart.pdf

LT:
Jones
Lisle or Woidke

LG:
Jordan
Burrell

C:
Elflein
Taylor

RG:
Price
Knox

RT:
Prince
Bowen

TE:
Baugh
Alexander

QB:
Barrett
Burrow

RB:
Weber or Samuel
Wilson

H:
Samuel or Wilson

X:
Brown or Campbell
Mack

Y:
Smith or Dixon

Z:
McLaurin or Clark
Victor

DE:
Hubbard or Holmes
Bosa or Cooper

DT:
Sprinkle
Jones

DT:
Hill
Hamilton

DE:
Lewis
Berry

SLB:
Worley
Baker

MLB:
McMillan
Fada

WLB:
Booker
Burger or Hilliard

CB:
Conley
Arnette

SS:
Hooker
Smith

FS:
Webb
Fuller

CB:
Lattimore or Ward

 

[BuckeyeSoldier]

weber or samuel at RB

 

[RobotParty]

It's nice we'll have Pridgeon, Myers, Moretti and possibly Davis in the mix at tackle next season. We are thinnnn there this year. I really like Bowen, but the fact that Trout is nowhere to be found, Feder can't stay healthy and Lisle is an "OR" with an underclassman walk-on is definitely a concern.

 

[TheStoicPaisano]

Wonder if Burrows and Conner are still recovering from their injuries. Burrows and EGW are the only non-FR/rFR missing from the defensive depth chart.

 

[RB07OSU]

Lots of interesting movement on the depth chart. Campbell being listed as an "OR" with Brown is encouraging for sure, whereas Lisle being listed as "OR" with a walk-on definitely is not. Also nice to see Clark as an "OR", really hope he can stay healthy and contribute this year. Looks like Alexander progressed nicely at TE and held on to the backup spot...little surprised not to see Hausmann listed though. Also a tad surprised Haskins was not listed at all, he was getting rave reviews from the coaches.

Really odd listing at DE with stacking Hubbard/Holmes/Bosa/Cooper at the same spot but I suspect they will go off script and play them all at different spots throughout the year. Regardless, glad to see Cooper listed. A bit disappointed to not see Cornell listed at all at DT, thought he had a great spring. Also wondering why Conner is not listed at LB, not sure if he is healthy again or not. Really happy to see Fuller listed as well.

 

[RobotParty]

Wonder if Burrows and Conner are still recovering from their injuries. Burrows and EGW are the only non-FR/rFR missing from the defensive depth chart.

There's been talk for a little while that this will be Burrows' last year in the program. You couple that with the fact that Meyer said Fuller would definitely play, and I think the writing is officially on the wall. I am curious about the omission of Hill at WR. Just about everyone other than he and Stump are listed.

 

[Sgt Brutus]

Excited to see Weber get some touches! Hoping to see Hilliard get some reps too, I didn't realize our LB depth.

 

[ScriptOhio]

THE TIME IS NOW FOR OHIO STATE'S 16 NEW STARTERS; URBAN MEYER SAYS BUCKEYES HAVE CROP OF "YOUNG TALENT THAT WE GET TO UNLEASH”

Ohio State linebacker Chris Worley has run out of the tunnel at Ohio Stadium before. This is his fourth year in the Buckeyes’ program, and the redshirt junior linebacker has appeared in 26 games throughout his career thus far.

But when Worley takes the field Saturday in front of the home crowd as Ohio State hosts Bowling Green, it will be the first time he’s ever done so as a starter for the Buckeyes. It’s not the first start of Worley’s Ohio State career — he actually started the season-opener against Navy in 2014 — but it’s the first time he’s ever started a game at Ohio Stadium.

“It’s going to be unreal,” Worley said Wednesday of his first start. “It’s not my first time going out in the stadium and playing, but it’s going to be my first time in that stadium running out as a true starter.”

Worley won’t be the only player running out of the tunnel as a first-time starter in front of the home crowd, though. Not even close. Ohio State must replace 16 starters from last year’s team so there are plenty of others who will join him.

Let’s dive a little deeper into who exactly those players are.

OFFENSE
Quarterback J.T. Barrett, center Pat Elflein and guard Billy Price are the only three returning starters on offense for Ohio State. Wide receiver/running backs Curtis Samuel and Dontre Wilson also have significant playing experience — and will be counted on heavily this season — but weren’t technically starters last year.

At running back, redshirt freshman Mike Weber was officially announced Wednesday as the heir apparent to Ezekiel Elliott. Weber was a highly-touted recruit in the 2015 class coming out of Cass Technical High School in Detroit and has big shoes to fill as Elliott’s replacement.

He seems up for the challenge, however.

“Zeke was really smart when it comes to reading defenses, knowing his assignments,” Weber said back at Ohio State’s team media day. “Just go out there and play as hard as you can while knowing all of those things."

“That was really my main point. I just wanted to grasp that from him because I know my talent is really good but I wanted to get to that next level, that elite level.”

Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...eyes-have-crop-of-young-talent-that-we-get-to

 

[ScriptOhio]