What’s up with Ohio State football’s safeties heading into spring practice?

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State's safety room is home to the nation's best returning defensive player in Caleb Downs. Then a lot of questions after that. Downs is the only known commodity at a position that arguably had the nation's best tandem in 2024 with him and Lathan Ransom. With Ransom off to the NFL, this becomes an important spring for position coach Matt Guerrieri in finding not only Ransom's replacement. But building depth behind him. On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis preview the safeties, looking at all the names, goals for the spring and the group’s ceiling. Plus, a conversation about a former five-star and whether we think this group will be better, the same or worse than it was in 2024. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you've been,
0:17.1	Buckeye talk is about to begin.
0:20.5	Hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:32.0	Welcome back to Bucketalk. I'm Stephen E. That's Stefan Christick, and that's Andrew Gillis.
0:35.6	We're continuing our preview of spring practice.
0:38.3	We've been running through the defense this week, and we finally made it to the end of the
0:41.7	road on the defensive side of the ball.
0:43.7	We'll do offense next week.
0:45.3	We're talking safeties, and it starts with Caleb Downs.
0:49.7	Stefan, what are you?
0:52.2	I don't know.
0:53.7	Take me, if you're the head coach of the Ohio State football team.
0:57.2	And Andrew is going to be Matt Guerrari and I'll be Matt Patricia.
1:00.9	Let's all sit down and have a conversation about what we want the spring of 2025 to be for Caleb Downs.
1:08.0	What are the expectations for him over the next 15 practices?
1:12.8	Well, to the people listening to the podcast, you haven't gotten to this yet, but next week
1:18.7	there's a wide receivers pod coming away. And Stephen's going to deliver a line a few times where
1:23.8	it just says, don't get injured. That's the extent of the conversation when it comes
1:29.1	to Caleb Downs and Springball is let's just make it to August and then let Caleb Downs do what Caleb
1:35.2	Downs does. So that's the extent, that's the important part. There are probably some conversations
1:41.1	of what exactly does Matt Patricia want to do with Caleb Downs
1:44.8	because it seems like the options are unlimited. I think what we saw from Jim Knowles down to
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