{"id":236139,"date":"2026-03-31T05:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/ohio-state-positioned-for-nfl-draft-feat-not-seen-since-1967\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:03:53","slug":"ohio-state-positioned-for-nfl-draft-feat-not-seen-since-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/ohio-state-positioned-for-nfl-draft-feat-not-seen-since-1967\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State positioned for NFL Draft feat not seen since 1967"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>How many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/colleges\/ohio_state_buckeyes\/48\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ohio State Buckeyes<\/a> will hear their name called during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/topics\/nfl_draft\/16991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 NFL Draft\u00a0<\/a>(scheduled April 23-25 in Pittsburgh)? Better yet, how many will go in the top 10?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Buckeyes may be positioned to do something that&#8217;s been done once in the common-draft era (which began in 1967 as a part of the AFL-NFL merger): have four players go in the top 10 of the draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>When was the last time a school had four players go in top 10 of 2026 NFL Draft?\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Citing ESPN Research, Rich Cimini shared that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/colleges\/michigan_state_spartans\/45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michigan State Spartans\u00a0<\/a>were the last school to have four players go in the top 10 (1967).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Spartans selected were defensive end Bubba Smith (Baltimore Colts, pick No. 1), running back Clint Jones (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/minnesota_vikings\/54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a>, pick No. 2), linebacker George Webster (Houston Oilers, pick No. 5) and wide receiver Gene Washington (Vikings, pick No. 8).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_football\/articles\/ohio_state_positioned_for_nfl_draft_feat_not_seen_since_1967\/s1_13132_43665846\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many Ohio State Buckeyes will hear their name called during the 2026 NFL Draft\u00a0(scheduled April 23-25 in Pittsburgh)? Better yet, how many will go in the top 10?\u00a0 The Buckeyes may be positioned to do something that&#8217;s been done once in the common-draft era (which began in 1967 as a part of the AFL-NFL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-236139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}