It’s not that Ohio State wasn’t willing to add to its defensive tackle room through the transfer portal this offseason; it’s just that no clear upgrades were interested.
The Buckeyes swung and missed on a few potential additions, like Syracuse’s Maraad Watson, but there weren’t a ton of options for clear improvements.
“It got to the point where there was just, for us, there was certain people that were in the portal, and the question was, ‘Are they better than what we have?’ And the decision that was made was no,” Ryan Day said at Big Ten Media Days on Tuesday.