Cortez Hankton

Now, Ohio State fans, I warned you.

I warned you about Cortez Hankton.

I warned you that that rotation would be a problem, and you wouldn't listen to me.

How was it now? You had two receivers that got two receptions the entire night.

A couple more when you count the new coaches.

Arthur Smith, the offensive coordinator, and Cortez Hankton, the wide receiver.

So just like Texas, Texas has 47 new players compared to this time a year ago.

These teams are a little bit alike the teams from a year ago and a lot not alike.

Jet.

So those guys Buckeye offers that Cortez Hankton interested in in the class of twenty twenty eight Cordell Ball three star out of Oak Hills and four star Joe Gibbs Jet Gibbs out of North Carolina, also out of North Carolina, hopefully joining Jet Harrison in the class is going to be Braylon Clark, who is top 10 wide receiver in the class.

And then you also have Lorenzo McMullen out of Cincinnati, another five star at the moment.

And we'll see how it progresses with those guys.

But a lot of options at wide receiver for Cortez Hankton in twenty twenty eight.

Let's move to running back where we're still looking for a running back in the class of twenty twenty seven.

And three-star Jordan Hall out of Princeton High was at the Ohio State game on the sideline, got a chance to see him in person, talk to him.

That one is a little too obvious.

I would like to delineate from that just a skosh and give stock up to Cortez Hankton.

Honestly, when you look, there was so much discussion about, oh, they're going to play more receivers.

And that's it's a conversation that's been had in the last couple of years, and it never came to fruition.

And when you see Brock Boyd and Chris Henry out there in the first quarter rotating in regularly, you can trust that this is the way this is going to go.

And I thought it was really important that Cortez Hankton and Ryan Day, Arthur Smith gave Chris Henry Jr. an opportunity at the end of the game against Ball State to write his mindset a little bit.

If you go back to the Monday episode of The Beat, no, the Tuesday episode of The Beat, look at the cover photo of Chris Henry Jr., walking off the field, and the exhale that is captured in the shot is just pretty amazing because that is a kid who everything has gone his way for the last six months.

He has been lights out.

No, you can't have one team shut you down three games in a row.

His wide receiver coach, uh, I looked it up, is Cortez Hankton.

Oh.

That matters because Cortez Hankton-

Mm

... recently came over from LSU.

Cortez Hankton had an opportunity to deal with Ryan Thomas Jr. and Malik Nabers.

Yep.