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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
“I'm competing with myself,” St. Clair said on Tuesday. “I'm trying to get better every day, be who I can be for this team, wherever that's needed. I'm trying to be the best teammate I can be for these quarterbacks, the best teammate I can be for this team, because they're all my brothers.”
“I have a luxury of all great players on the field at the same time as me here,” St. Clair said. “At Bellefontaine, I had good players, but they weren't the level that I have here. So I felt obligated to go and have to make the play, like I had to make the play. Sometimes it wasn't always the right play. But here, you have the great players, they're gonna be in the right spots. They know exactly what they're supposed to do. All you have to do is get the ball to them at the right time.”
“You feel like you have an idea coming in, like, yeah, I'm gonna have to watch a lot of film, things like that,” St. Clair said. “But the attention to detail at Ohio State is different. Every single play, every detail has to matter. Every inch matters. That's what Coach Day and Coach Mick always say. They always preach that to us. So every inch actually matters here. And you can't have a bad day at Ohio State.”
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Ryan Day said just a few words that should have Buckeye Nation excited about the next quarterback after Julian Sayin
Ohio State has a big time talent waiting behind Julian Sayin.Ryan Day gives latest update on freshman Tavien St. Clair
“I think he’s had his best week of practice this last week,” Day said on Thursday. “Had a good day on Tuesday. Making some good throws. He has the potential, and he’s gaining on it every day.”St. Clair is on pace to redshirt this season with just one game played and two pass attempts. The former five-star recruit was a major in-state win for the Buckeyes. He was the No. 1 quarterback and the No. 7 overall player nationally in the 2025 class. The 6-foot-4 quarterback has all the traits you could want from a player under center.
This season has been all about running the scout team and developing there for St. Clair. The freshman is expected to be the backup next year, with Lincoln Kienholz likely moving on. The current plan has gone as expected, and Day’s update on St. Clair’s progress is exactly what Ohio State fans should want to hear. He’s now most of the way through his first season, and the game should be beginning to slow down for him. Sayin may be the star on the field now, but the Buckeyes likely have another one waiting behind him.
Just sayin': I'm not sure that Ohio State really wants him to "move on". Sometimes you might need 3 QBs that are actually ready to play.
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Too soon old, too late smart
Agreed. LK might travel to Bama, as he had signed with Washington when DeBoer was coach there. Next year, see Tavien getting the second chair behind Sayin, and playing more and more minutes, getting him ready for QB1. Not certain whether tOSU will have the horses to be runaway B10 leaders next year, so hoping Tavien stays interested. He'll be a RS freshman, so he'll have four to play four.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
“However long it takes, I'm just grateful for the opportunity to be here,” St. Clair said during Ohio State’s media day before the Cotton Bowl. “I'm learning a ton of things behind Julian this year. So just continuing to grow and continuing to add things to my value that I can add to my skill set from Julian's game and from Lincoln (Kienholz)'s game and from Coach Day's knowledge and Coach Fess' knowledge, I'm just really excited to learn and continue to grow for my journey.”
“Tavien is someone that really has to step up for us,” Ryan Day said on his radio show in January. “He's going to have to be right there behind Julian and be ready to go. The schedule that we're playing next year, as you guys know, you've seen what it looks like, and so Tavien's got to really take the next step.”
“We see the talent. We know that he can throw it. He's big and strong and all those things. So this offseason will be critical for him,” Day said. “He did a great job (in 2025) of going down to the scout team, competing, going against the best defense in the country every day in practice. So all that stuff really is going to add up to having a big spring and preseason for him.”
“It all goes back to the reason I committed here in the first place. I felt like the development at the quarterback position was the best in the country,” St. Clair said. “If you stick to the process and you stay consistent here, good things will happen for you in the back end. And it's been really fun, really exciting to be a part of what Julian's been able to experience this year, and we're just really looking forward to seeing his growth over the next part of his journey.”
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