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— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) April 1, 2025
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“HE'S LEBRON JAMES OF FOOTBALL.” Marvin Harrison Jr. knew Jeremiah Smith would be a freshman phenom at Ohio State.
“I watch football. I’ll watch receivers, and it’s like, ‘He’s good. He’s great.’ I could have told you this was gonna happen a long (time ago) – just from watching highlights,” Harrison said in an appearance on THE Podcast.
Harrison then made a monumental comparison for Smith, the No. 1 overall prospect in the 2024 class who led the Buckeyes with 76 catches for 1,315 yards and 15 touchdowns in his first season.
“I feel like people, and I hate to put pressure on him, so I don’t want to say it – I think he’s LeBron James of football,” Harrison said. “He’s built differently than everybody else. He’s athletically gifted. The mindset he has as a football player, it’s really special to see. The talent is out the roof, who he is as a person, his character, there is no limit for him. He can do whatever he wants to do. Every record there is at Ohio State, he’s gonna have it. There’s nothing he’s going to leave college not having done.”
When asked how it feels that Smith has become the standard among Ohio State receivers and college football receivers writ large, Harrison smiled, knowing he used to hold the same title.
“He should be the standard,” Harrison said.
“Already?” Austin Ward interrupted.
“Yes,” Harrison continued. “Like I said, I watch football. I can tell when some things are different. He’s the standard.”
A Biletnikoff Award winner and Heisman Trophy finalist as a junior at Ohio State, Harrison shared some advice to Smith, who will enter his sophomore year with massive expectations.
“Enjoy being in college, enjoy this moment, enjoy being in Columbus, just enjoy being who you are,” Harrison said, sharing that he hopes Smith is on the cover of EA Sports College Football 26. “Enjoy being on top of this world because you deserve to be there.”
Yes.
Yes, he does.
ROCKED LIKE A HURRICANE. Oh, Michael Irvin. Thanks for the schadenfreude.
This is me @OhioStateFB stumping on the grave of that PASS Interference ghost (RIP-my ass) that cheated us out of our fam (@CanesFootball ) CHAMPIONSHIP !!!!THATS TWO RINGS I LOST ON BAD P.I. CALLS!!!! pic.twitter.com/L80WBjIrKs
— Michael Irvin (@michaelirvin88) March 31, 2025
Remember: We Broke the U.
“HE’S GOT GREAT JUICE TO HIM.” Ryan Day has had tremendous praise for Will Howard since he became a Buckeye in January 2024. That praise continued last week after Howard balled out at Ohio State’s pro day.
“I thought the ball came out of his hands with pace. There was a rhythm about it. The thing about Will is, Will has a great makeup in terms of his – I guess they call it now ‘aura’ – but he’s got great juice to him,” Day told Cleveland Browns radio announcer Andrew Siciliano. “That was on display. But when you were there watching it, talking to a couple of the NFL personnel, you just realize how big he is. He just looks like an NFL guy out there day one. He’s got command. He can line up under center. He can line up in the gun. He can make all the throws.”
Will Howard showed off his skills @ohiostatefb Pro Day
— Cleveland Browns (@Browns) March 28, 2025
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Day acknowledged that Howard didn’t perform well at the NFL Scouting Combine. However, he attributed that to Howard’s lack of chemistry with his receivers, as well as combine kookiness.
“Sometimes at the combine, they tell the guy, ‘Take five and a hitch, throw it to this cone or throw it to this area.’ It gets a little goofy. I’ve been there before. I was in the NFL. I coached the quarterbacks,” he said. “But I think (pro day) was a little more realistic to show his skill set.”
Sure seems like it.
I think 65 of 67 is pretty good.
A BAYOU BOOM. ICYMI – but I am sure no one missed it – five-star recruit Blaine Bradford, the No. 1 safety and No. 23 overall prospect in the 2026 class, committed to Ohio State on Monday.
Want to hear something nuts?
A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Bradford would become just the FIFTH Ohio State player to hail from the Pelican State, joining running back Jonathan Wells (1998-2001), defensive lineman Nader Abdallah (2004-08), cornerback Jyaire Brown (2022-23) and offensive lineman Victor Cutler Jr. (2023).
Wells had the best career of that quartet, rushing for 2,418 yards and 27 touchdowns in 45 appearances for the Buckeyes, so there’s a good chance, if and when Bradford arrives at Ohio State, that he ends his career as the greatest Buckeye to ever hail from Louisiana. By the sounds of it, it’s more when than if Bradford comes to Columbus, according to this X post from his father, Stacy:
Great question, I can see how individuals may think that way. Blaine will be at Ohio State. They simply did a better job recruiting him. This is a done deal.
— Stacy Bradford (@BradfordEBR1) March 31, 2025
SONG OF THE DAY. "The Best Is Yet to Come" - Ben Rector.
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