To those outside the Ohio State football program, the increase in Buckeyes entering the transfer portal this year could be seen as surprising or even alarming.
After all, the Buckeyes already have five more scholarship players in the portal this year (14) than they had all of last offseason (nine).
Most of those portal entries, however, came as no surprise to Ryan Day.
“No, not really. There was a couple in there certainly that we had long conversations about, but coming off of COVID, there was really five-plus years of scholarships on our roster,” Day said Thursday on 97.