Buckeyes 2025 spring practice roster revealed
COLUMBUS — Ohio State has released its official 2025 spring practice roster.
The national champs will hit the practice field on Monday for the first time since winning the national title back on Jan. 20, and the program has a new-look roster featuring new faces, new names and new numbers for some familiar players.
Below is a list of returning players who changed their numbers.
| Player name | Old number | New number |
|---|---|---|
| WR Bryson Rodgers | 13 | 21 |
| LB Arvell Reese | 20 | 8 |
| WR Brandon Inniss | 11 | 1 |
| DB Jermaine Mathews Jr. | 24 | 7 |
| DB Brenton ‘Inky’ Jones | 32 | 21 |
Now we’ll list the transfer additions and their numbers:
| Player name | Number |
|---|---|
| DE Logan George | 48 |
| TE Max Klare | 86 |
| OT Ethan Onianwa | 78 |
| OT Phillip Daniels | 70 |
| LB Ty Howard | 25 |
| RB CJ Donaldson | 12 |
Here are the freshmen numbers…
| Player name | Number |
|---|---|
| DB Devin Sanchez | 4 |
| QB Tavien St. Clair | 9 |
| WR Phillip Bell | 7 |
| WR De’Zie Jones | 8 |
| WR Quincy Porter | 11 |
| DL Zion Grady | 15 |
| DB Faheem Delane | 10 |
| WR Bodpegn Miller | 18 |
| LB Riley Pettijohn | 20 |
| RB Bo Jackson | 25 |
| DB Deshawn Stewart | 24 |
| DB Cody Haddad | 30 |
| RB Isaiah West | 32 |
| OT Carter Lowe | 74 |
| OL Jake Cook | 76 |
| TE Nate Roberts | 83 |
| DL Trajen Odom | 88 |
| DL Jarquez Carter | 91 |
New structure to spring practice
When the Buckeyes hit the practice field Monday to open a four-week, 15-practice stretch in March and April, it’s not going to look like what we know spring practice to be from the past. It’s going to be different.
“You have 15 opportunities, and in the past those were all padded practices, very physical,” Day said Friday, just 10 days before spring ball opens up. “That will not be the case, for sure, this spring. We’ll use some helmeted practices, almost like OTA-style to take some of those. There will be more teaching opportunities to be smart there.”
Ohio State doesn’t need an entire set of spring practice sessions featuring 11-on-11 full-hitting sessions and Oklahoma drills. The Buckeyes are going to be smart about how they approach the coming few weeks, especially considering they want to play another 16-game season next year after just wrapping one up two months ago.
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Day likes what he has coming back because while the program lost 17 players from its national championship run, this next edition of the roster features plenty of returning impact players who will now step into even bigger roles. m With so many Buckeyes coming back after playing key roles for a championship team, Ohio State is finding new ways to structure March and April.
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