Zak Herbstreit is "officially" a Buckeye.
The second-year tight end, who joined Ohio State as a preferred walk-on in June 2021, became the latest Buckeye to shed his black stripe Wednesday.
The son of former Ohio State quarterback and college football announcer Kirk Herbstreit, Zak Herbstreit played high school football at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville – where he was named first-team all-region as a senior – before walking on with the Buckeyes.
A 6-foot-2, 243-pound tight end, Herbstreit didn't see any snaps in his first year in the program, but is now just the fourth Buckeye to lose his black stripe since the start of fall camp, and the first offensive player to do so.