Ryan Day discusses QBs Devin Brown, Julian Sayin, Lincoln Kienholz all getting snaps in Week 2

Ohio State technically played five quarterbacks during a 56-0 walloping of Western Michigan over the weekend — that is, if you count walk-on Mason Maggs lining up at running back and getting his first career carry.

The Buckeyes unloaded the bench against the Broncos, and the quarterback room shined.

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Starting signal caller Will Howard set the tone by completing his first 10 passes of the night. Howard finished 18-of-26 for 292 yards and a score, not to mention he recorded his first rushing touchdown in a Buckeyes uniform.

Devin Brown entered the game in the third quarter. Whereas he completed just 1-of-3 passes in the opener against Akron, the redshirt sophomore went 5-of-5 in Week 2 versus Western Michigan. Brown quarterbacked two drives, the first of which spanned eight plays and 81 yards and led to a touchdown from true freshman running back James Peoples. Arguably Brown’s best throw of the night was a 27-yard laser to sophomore wideout Brandon Inniss that Brown fired after rolling left.

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Then Julian Sayin came into the game. A unanimous five-star prospect and former Elite 11 finalist, Sayin completed his only two pass attempts. Both went to tight ends, the first resulting in a six-yard completion to Patrick Gurd and the next going for a 55-yard Bennett Christian touchdown. Sayin located a wide-open Christian, who caught the tight-spiraling pass and then zoomed to the paint untouched.

Redshirt freshman Lincoln Kienholz authored the final Ohio State drive, although he didn’t attempt a pass during the five-play, 40-yard series, which ended with a kneel down.

“I thought Devin did a nice job on that first drive that he went in there [for],” Ohio State head coach Ryan Day said postgame. “He hit a nice play-action pass, did a couple nice things. Threw an over out to [redshirt freshman wide receiver] Bryson Rodgers, which was well done, made a couple nice checks in the run game. So I thought that was good. He got a couple drives.

“I felt like we wanted to get Jules in there and Lincoln as well. Those guys are working, and they deserve an opportunity to play in those types of situations. The more we can do that, the better. I would love to get them more and more reps, but when you have that many quarterbacks, it’s hard to do. But, again, I think this team overall is unselfish, and I think that everyone’s cheering for each other, they’re pulling for each other, and the ball got spread around today overall, and that was good.”

Ohio State has five scholarship quarterbacks on its 2024 roster. The only scholarship quarterback who didn’t see the field against Western Michigan was true freshman Air Noland, the On3 Industry Ranking’s No. 5 quarterback in the 2024 class.