5 months ago
- Ohio State
- Published: Jan. 01, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Lincoln Kienholz took his champion changeable astatine becoming Ohio State’s starting quarterback, doing everything he was asked to do since nan infinitesimal he signed arsenic its 2023 backmost recruit.
He knew his first 2 years would beryllium much astir improvement than playing time, moreover if that scheme sewage sidetracked successful nan 2023 Cotton Bowl acknowledgment to Kyle McCord’s departure and Devin Brown getting wounded successful nan first half. He knew that Year 3 was erstwhile he’d yet had that opportunity to show each nan patience waiting was worthy it.
But conscionable arsenic was nan lawsuit 12 months agone pinch Brown, nan penning was astir apt ever connected nan wall that Columbus would astir apt beryllium his first stop, but not his past arsenic a assemblage shot player.
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Julian Sayin was ever destined to beryllium nan Buckeyes’ adjacent starter nan infinitesimal he transferred successful from Alabama and quickly turned heads arsenic a existent freshman. Kienholz’s domiciled each offseason was to beryllium nan logic that nan backmost room was maximized. Was location a chance that would mean he surpassed nan feline everyone expected was next? Sure, and he spent nan outpouring doing his champion to make that imaginable because he was really nan amended feline erstwhile nan nationalist sewage to spot them. It was conscionable ne'er sustainable because astatine immoderate point, nan feline who’s gone connected to beryllium a Heisman Trophy finalist would separate.
The adjacent measurement for Kienholz is uncovering a spot to get connected nan field. His skillset suggests he tin do so, and possibly moreover astatine a Big Ten school, because there’s worth successful nan 3 years he spent processing nether Ryan Day, who erstwhile compared this conflict to nan 1 Dwayne Haskins and Joe Burrow had successful 2018. Maybe things will extremity for illustration that one, too, wherever some sides extremity up getting wherever they want to go.
In nan meantime, OSU now looks forward. Sayin will subordinate Justin Fields and C.J. Stroud arsenic multi-year starters nether Day. But eyes besides move to his caller full-time understudy.
Tavien St. Clair’s twelvemonth of figuring retired nan basics is officially over. He’ll walk each Saturday adjacent autumn being 1 play distant from being nan astir important personification connected nan roster. Then he’ll blink again, each of a sudden, he’ll perchance find himself successful nan aforesaid shoes that Kienholz and Brown were erstwhile in, having spent 2 years learning earlier being fresh to conflict successful Year 3. Unlike those two, he’ll beryllium expected to triumph that battle.
Stephen Means covers Ohio State shot for Cleveland.com while besides serving arsenic nan big of nan Buckeye Talk podcast. Prior to covering nan Buckeyes, he sewage acquisition moving astatine nan Akron Beacon Journal...
