Zion Grady

You can sort of give him a little bit of the benefit of the doubt there, but you haven't seen it yet from him.

Zion Grady missed the game today.

He missed all of last week, or most of last week as well.

Do you think he's going to be the difference? Zion Grady? Right.

And I think he can be a factor.

I don't think he's going to turn into the absolute...

And, you know, this is, this is, you know, they, they did kind of what they needed to do.

They, you know, you got through this week, they got through reasonably healthy.

That's good.

Need some DN depth, especially if Zion Grady's out for a while.

Quay Russo had one really good pass rush, I thought.

Didn't get credit for anything, but I thought he looked super quick.

Now, I don't know if that's going to continue, but I think if you're going down that list of players that Matt Patricia and Larry Johnson are considering, it certainly feels like Riley Pettijohn is A, number one up there, and then everything else will be subject to change beyond that.

We saw Zion Grady leaving me a car while there.

What did I say? You said,

well, I think he's

That's it.

What is it? I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I was going to say if we're...

let's put a bow on what's happening with the offensive line and the defensive line because Zion Grady had a protective sleeve and a brace on his right leg.

So when we're talking about the opportunities and who can help get that fixed with Illinois and the start of Big Ten play a week ago, it doesn't look like maybe he would be ready for that.

Let's guess.

Well, someone who I'm guessing is not going to be graded at all this week is Zion Grady.

He came out, he went out last week with a leg injury.

Ryan Day said, not a long-term issue, not expected to be a long-term issue.

The guy's been training since he was in sixth grade with this wild set of moves.

And we could really see it break out in a game like this.

Now, I'll just say regarding the Zion Grady injury, the Philip Daniels injury, it's just too bad that Ohio State doesn't have the medical staff that LSU has.

Yeah, Sam Leavitt, in case you were not familiar with the...

They have just a bunch of average players on the defensive line.

I think Kenyatta's good, and they have some other defensive ends like Zion Grady and Kari Wilder that definitely are not just Jags.

But overall, it's a very average defensive line.

And they were not good in the portal last year.

I don't think he's going to need to do much more than that, but I think it'll be a quick, efficient, and an aggressive passing attack for Ohio State.

Okay, at this point on Friday afternoon at the horseshoe, we still do not believe that Zion Grady will play, so that means even from the start, there will be opportunities for other pass rushers.

I don't think that Kyrie Wilder is going to start.

I do think He's going to play extensively in this game and he is going to have two sacks in an additional additional tackle for loss in this game.

Kyrie Wilder, three tackles for loss, two of them will be sacks.

And that is going to continue, I think, to stoke the fire and give Larry Johnson and Matt Patricia a lot more to think about.

You know, once they get Zion Grady back in that mix, what that frontline rotation needs to be is Is Kyrie Wilder ready to emerge into that group that's the same bucket as Jay Timmons? Even though you're a true freshman, you can help Ohio State right away and there's no need to pull back just because you don't have a ton of experience or because you made a mistake in a high leverage snap against Texas and jumped offside.

I know that that's certainly part of the decision-making process with good reason.

He's a fifth year.

Your number two is a second year in Zion Grady and Epi Satonile and Kari Wilder.

Those are all second and first year guys.

Fifth year, first and second.

We'll see.

But let's start with Edge.

Zion Grady is your starter in week one against Ball State.

Starter in week two against Texas.