C.J. Hicks

You remember the way that that game ended a year ago.

CJ Hicks made a nice play around the edge.

He got to Arch Manning, forced a bad throw.

We didn't get him on the ground.

All right.

See some C.J. Hicks down there.

Yep.

He's a captain.

I don't want...

And CJ Hicks...

I think we were all on the C.J. Hicks train for a while.

We were rooting for him.

[laughs]

But, uh, but the bottom line is then what was it like to get out there in the open field and, and do something like that? I mean, you know, Ryan Day's been hinting about that for a while now, about you and then the CJ Hicks block-

Mm-hmm

... near, near the end of that.

We just working right now.

We just learning still, so.

What do you think about CJ Hicks and what he can do in this defense?

Um, I think CJ Hicks-

I would expect...

I feel like we should expect more than that, but the depth chart is better now than it was for Zion Grady last year, where he was competing against Bo Atkinson by the end of the season because C.J. Hicks had shut it down.

Dominic Kirk, there was no, like, Logan George, they realized he couldn't play.

So the depth chart just kind of kept falling by the wayside.

I agree, Gillis.

CJ was a captain his second year as a starter.

Justin Fields was a captain his second year as a starter.

Julian Sandy needed to be a captain his second year as a starter.

There's no rule.

And I, I, I know a lot of people don't like it, so I hesitate to say this.

I get it from the player's perspective 'cause the class of 2022 spent all of last season, we saw with CJ Hicks, the uncertainty of, like, is this gonna happen? Is this not gonna happen? And the moment you graduate and leave, like, it happens, right?

Mm-hmm.

That's good stuff.

From Bucks UNC25, last year everyone was expecting C.J. Hicks to be the next Abdul Carter, and he didn't even hardly play.

Who do you think is this year's Hicks, Chuck? Brother, you must be new here.

I love these kind of discussion points.

You know, we have so many first round draft picks at Ohio state that, It's almost like people talk about it like it's an easy thing to do.

I just don't see him having that kind of athletic ceiling.

But there is no situation of anything like C.J. Hicks.

Just nothing like it, man.