{"id":397781,"date":"2026-01-09T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397781\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:30:08","slug":"ohio-state-defensive-tackle-eric-mensah-entering-transfer-portal-after-two-years-as-buckeye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397781\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State Defensive Tackle Eric Mensah Entering Transfer Portal After Two Years As Buckeye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                   Eric Mensah is leaving Ohio State after two years as a Buckeye.                <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe backup defensive tackle announced Friday on X that he is entering the transfer portal.\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">\n\t\tI want to thank Coach Day, especially Coach Johnson, the weight room staff, and the nutrition staff for the opportunity to wear the scarlet and gray but also helping me grow as a man and teaching me a lot. However, I will be taking my talents elsewhere. As always Go Bucks!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3JyTduZO78\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/3JyTduZO78<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\u2014 Eric Mensah (@EricMen85258722) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricMen85258722\/status\/2009630994651901977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tA three-star prospect in the 2024 recruiting class, Mensah played only sparingly in two seasons as a Buckeye, making four game appearances for 19 total snaps. He will bring three years of collegiate eligibility to his next school.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMensah is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elevenwarriors.com\/ohio-state-football\/2026\/01\/160827\/ohio-state-transfer-portal-tracker-quarterback-lincoln-kienholz-tight-end-jelani-thurman-and-defensive-back-bryce\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ohio State\u2019s\u00a023rd scholarship player<\/a> to enter the transfer portal in 2026. He\u2019s the second defensive tackle to go portaling, joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elevenwarriors.com\/ohio-state-football\/2026\/01\/160997\/defensive-tackle-maxwell-roy-enters-transfer-portal-after-one-season-with-ohio-state\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maxwell Roy<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Mensah is leaving Ohio State after two years as a Buckeye. The backup defensive tackle announced Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-397781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}