The entire list has yet to be unveiled, but we did just receive our first former Ohio State player as things get closer to the top 50. New Orleans<\/a> wide receiver Chris Olave checked in at No. 64 based on the voting of the players, quite a leap from being omitted from the list in 2025 because of missed time because of concussion concerns that almost resulted in a decision to retire.<\/p>\n His inclusion on the list is well deserved.<\/p>\n Olave compiled 100 receptions for 1,163 yards (11.6 ypc) and nine touchdowns last year as a nice bounce-back season, more in line with what we saw from the former Ohio State star during his first two seasons in New Orleans. Olave is expected to be WR1 for the Saints<\/a> again this season, and if he continues to remain healthy, he should put up some All-Pro-type numbers coming off making the second team in 2025.<\/p>\n The NFL Top 100 will continue to be unveiled over the next couple of weeks or so, and as it is, we’ll continue to bring you other former Buckeyes<\/a> who are named as some of the best in the NFL.<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a> Contact\/Follow us\u00a0@BuckeyesWire<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0Facebook\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Ohio State news, notes, and opinion. Follow\u00a0Phil Harrison<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 24, 2026, 10:10 p.m. ET It’s become an annual tradition. The players in the NFL themselves vote…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[159202,49,48,514,249359,82,249360,194095,160670,163636,165972,219805,163020,162523,159798,162921,160668,230513,249361,159095,159089,159085],"class_list":["post-824505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-accessfree","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sourcebuckeyes-wire","tag-sports","tag-sstssportscollegebuckeyesfootball","tag-sstsnfootball","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagbig-10-hub","tag-tagbig-ten-conference-football","tag-tagchris-olave","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagfacebook","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnew-orleans-saints","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagohio-state-buckeyes","tag-tagohio-state-buckeyes-football","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784952368_89_86628160007-buckeyescarfagnas.jpg\")