2025 tOSU Special Teams Discussion

[ScriptOhio]

All well and good, but what he did in the CFP is the minimum that he's supposed to do. The only reason it's being recognized is because of how he crapped the bed in The Game. Surely, we're planning to bring in some competition when the portal is open.

Currently the back up to Jayden Fielding is Casey Magyar. He attended high school in Dublin OH and came to Ohio State as a preferred walk on transfer from Kent State. In 2021 he made 1 of 2 extra point kicks for Kent State. His Ohio State bio is as follows:

Ohio State Overview
• Casey was a preferred walk-on to the team in the spring of 2023 and is in his second season with the program after transferring from Kent State
• He is an OSU Scholar-Athlete who is majoring in mathematics

Honors & Awards
2023: OSU Scholar-Athlete

More on Casey
• Casey spent the 2021 and 2022 seasons playing for Kent State
• Made his collegiate debut in the 2021 home opener against VMI, making one PAT
• Also saw time against Western Michigan attempting one PAT
• Was a second-team All-Ohio and first-team All-District kicker for Coffman

Just sayin': Yeah, we definitely need another placekicker.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Venneri averaged 43.96 yards per punt for the Bulls in 2023, finishing 30th in the FBS in punting average – one spot ahead of former Ohio State punter Jesse Mirco, who transferred to Vanderbilt in January after averaging 43.69 yards per punt in 2023. Venneri broke his own single-season school record for punting average of 43 yards per punt in 2022, when he earned Freshman All-American honors from the FWAA.



A 6-foot, 225-pound punter from Hamilton, Ontario, Venneri brings two years of eligibility to Ohio State.

He’ll enter what now becomes a three-way competition for the starting punting job at Ohio State this season. A pair of punters from Australia, redshirt freshman Joe McGuire and incoming freshman Nick McLarty – the only scholarship punter on the roster – will also compete for the job in preseason camp. Venneri will have the advantage of experience in that competition as neither McLarty nor McGuire has punted in a collegiate game.

Ohio State football team loses its first player to the transfer portal in 2025

The Ohio State football team has lost a player at a critical position.

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Ohio State football player Anthony Venneri enters the transfer portal​

The Ohio State Buckeyes have lost their first player to the spring transfer portal, and it's at a position where they could use some help. Anthony Venneri, a punter, has decided to enter the transfer portal and will play somewhere else for the 2025 college football season.

 

[CMic]

Lost our third string punter??

 

[ScriptOhio]

Lost our third string punter??

PT1: Joe McGuire RS Jr
PT2: Nick McLarty RS Soph
PT3: Anthony Venneri Sr

Just sayin': Yeah, it was (undoubtedly) time for him to move on.

 

[brodybuck21]

*AHEM* BRYSON RODGERS? In Ryan Day's Tuesday press conference, the Ohio State head coach expressed frustration over the Buckeyes' performance on punt return against Grambling State.

"That's an area, coming out of the game, that we've got to improve on," Day said. "I think we lost 47 hidden yards with the ball bouncing around on the ground. A couple of them were very difficult because they weren't very well hit, but other ones I feel like we could have fielded. It's not just one thing."

He then named four Buckeyes — Brandon Inniss, Jeremiah Smith, Carnell Tate, and Caleb Downs — who could receive punt return opportunities on a week-to-week basis before calling Ohio State's punt returning "something coming out of the game that was a red flag that we got to get fixed."

"Brandon is still gonna return punts for us, but we also have Jeremiah that we can put back there, Carnell, Caleb, if we need to," Day said. "We're gonna stick to it, but we got to get better."


Question: What about Bryson Rodgers?

Rodgers earned a few opportunities to return punts last weekend. He returned one of them 25 yards while making two defenders miss in open space. Unfortunately, the referees conferred that Rodgers signaled for a fair catch, which negated his pickup. Even so, the burst Rodgers showed made me wonder if he should be the Buckeyes’ go-to option, with Smith and Downs stepping in for matchup games.

I like Inniss — I really do. But I cannot recall him making a defender miss on a punt return, and while he's fast, he's not so fast that he makes fast people look not fast. Therefore, I'd like to see Rodgers receive a few more chances to return punts this season. And if not Rodgers, how about Mylan Graham? He juked a Grambling State defender (yes, I know, I know, it's just a Grambling State defender) out of their shoes on a screen pass Saturday, and he did it immediately after the catch.


Just something to think about!

Skull Session: Ohio Coach Brian Smith Says Ohio State is “Talented Everywhere and Calls Ryan Day "Extremely Successful,” Bryson Rodgers Deserves Another Shot at Punt Returner

Brian Smith says Ohio State is “talented everywhere,” Ryan Day calls Ohio “well-coached” and Bryson Rodgers deserves more looks as the Buckeyes' punt returner.

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