Ohio State\u2019s Kayden McDonald Wants to Show NFL Teams Pass-Rushing Promise Alongside Elite Run Defense<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\tDavison Igbinosun, CB<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 2, No. 52, Green Bay Packers:\u00a03 (A to Z, Crabbs, Forness)<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 2, No. 56, Jacksonville Jaguars:\u00a0Draft Tek<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 2, No. 57, Chicago Bears:\u00a0Scataglia<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 2, No. 59, Houston Texans:\u00a0Baumgardner<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 2, No. 62, Denver Broncos:\u00a0Edwards<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 70, Cleveland Browns:\u00a0Easterling<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 72, Cincinnati Bengals:\u00a0Wilson<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 73, New Orleans Saints: Tankathon<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 76, Pittsburgh Steelers:\u00a0Infante<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 77, Tampa Bay Buccaneers:\u00a0Reuter<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 79, Atlanta Falcons:\u00a03 (ESPN, Moran, Williams)<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 80, Baltimore Ravens: Randall<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 81, Jacksonville Jaguars: DRAFTPLEX<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 85, Pittsburgh Steelers:\u00a0Elijah<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 86, Los Angeles Chargers:\u00a0Miller<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 87, Miami Dolphins: Fanelli<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 97, Minnesota Vikings:\u00a0Brown<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 4, No. 102, Las Vegas Raiders:\u00a0Iyer<\/p>\n
\n\tAverage Draft Projection: 73.3 (-0.3)\n<\/p>\n
\n\tIgbinosun is a near-unanimous choice to be a Day 2 draft pick in multi-round mock drafts, with most of those mocks projecting the Ohio State cornerback to be drafted in Round 3. Just over 20% of the mocks in this roundup with at least two rounds (six of 27) have Igbinosun being selected late in Round 2.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThe team viewed as most likely to draft Igbinosun late in the second round is the Green Bay Packers, who have been known to target tall cornerbacks like Igbinosun, who measured in at 6-foot-2 and 189 pounds with 32 7\/8-inch arms at the NFL Scouting Combine, where he ran a 4.45-second 40-yard dash.\n<\/p>\n
\tMax Klare, TE<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 2, No. 62, Denver Broncos: 2 (Baumgardner, Scataglia)<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 68, Philadelphia Eagles: 2 (Infante, Miller)<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 72, Cincinnati Bengals: DRAFTPLEX<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 74, Kansas City Chiefs:\u00a02 (Crabbs, Tankathon)<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 77, Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Williams<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 80, Baltimore Ravens:\u00a0Iyer<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 81, Jacksonville Jaguars: 2 (A to Z, Reuter)<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 83, Carolina Panthers: Draft HQ<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 85, Pittsburgh Steelers:\u00a0Draft Tek<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 87, Miami Dolphins: 2 (Brown, Easterling)<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 90, Miami Dolphins:\u00a0ESPN<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 94, Miami Dolphins: Randall<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 95, New England Patriots:\u00a0Edwards<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 97, Minnesota Vikings: Teets<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 3, No. 98, Philadelphia Eagles: Moran<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 4, No. 106, Houston Texans:\u00a0Elijah<\/p>\n
\n\tAverage Draft Projection: 82.0\u00a0(-6.8)\n<\/p>\n
\n\tLike Igbinosun, Klare is a near-unanimous choice to be a Day 2 pick in multi-round mock drafts, with most of those projections coming in Round 3.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tOnly two of the 27 mocks in this roundup with two-plus rounds have Klare going in Round 2; both\u00a0of those mocks connect him with the Denver Broncos, who have the third-to-last pick in the second round. Nineteen of the 22 mocks in this roundup that include at least three rounds have the former Ohio State tight end\u00a0coming off the board in the first three rounds, which would make Klare the first OSU TE selected in the first two days since Jeremy Ruckert went to the Jets as the 101st overall pick in 2022.\n<\/p>\n
\tCaden Curry, DE<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 4, No. 126, Buffalo Bills:\u00a0Easterling<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 4, No. 138, San Francisco 49ers:\u00a02 (DRAFTPLEX, Randall)<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 5, No. 156, Indianapolis Colts:\u00a0Reuter<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 5, No. 165, Buffalo Bills: Edwards<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 5, No. 168, Buffalo Bills:\u00a0Elijah<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 5, No. 171, New England Patriots:\u00a0Miller<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 6, No. 183, Arizona Cardinals:\u00a0Iyer<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 6, No. 185, Las Vegas Raiders:\u00a0Draft Tek<\/p>\n
\n\tAverage Draft Projection This Cycle: 158.9\u00a0(-20.6)\n<\/p>\n
\n\tCurry is unanimously projected as a Day 3 draft pick in seven-round mock drafts, with his draft projections ranging from Round 4 to Round 6.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThe most popular projected landing spot for Curry is Buffalo, where the Bills could bring him in to help replace fellow former Ohio State defensive end Joey Bosa, who remains an unsigned free agent after spending last season with the Bills. Two mock drafts have the San Francisco 49ers using one of their fourth-round picks to draft Curry, where he\u2019d join a defensive end rotation led by Joey\u2019s younger brother and another former Ohio State defensive end, Nick Bosa.\n<\/p>\n
\tLorenzo Styles Jr., DB<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 5, No. 176, Kansas City Chiefs:\u00a0Miller<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 6, No. 181, Detroit Lions:\u00a0Draft Tek<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 6, No. 199, Cincinnati Bengals: Iyer<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 6, No. 204, Los Angeles Chargers: Randall<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 7, No. 239, Chicago Bears:\u00a0Edwards\u00a0<\/p>\n
\t\tUndrafted:\u00a0DRAFTPLEX, Elijah<\/p>\n
\n\tAverage Draft Projection: 216.4\u00a0(-28.9)\n<\/p>\n
\n\tMost seven-round mock drafts project Styles to be drafted in the latter rounds of Day 3 after he led all defensive players with a blistering 4.27-second 40-yard dash time<\/a> at the combine. Assuming he is selected, Lorenzo and Sonny will be the pair of brothers who played for Ohio State to both be selected in the same NFL draft.\n<\/p>\n\tWill Kacmarek, TE<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 5, No. 149, Cleveland Browns:\u00a0DRAFTPLEX<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 5, No. 186, New York Giants:\u00a0Miller<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 6, No. 206, Cleveland Browns: Edwards<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 7, No. 242, Buffalo Bills: Randall<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 7, No. 257, Denver Broncos: Iyer\u00a0<\/p>\n
\t\tUndrafted: Draft Tek, Elijah<\/p>\n
\n\tAverage Draft Projection: 222.3\u00a0(-28)\n<\/p>\n
\n\tLike Lorenzo Styles, Kacmarek is projected to be selected in five of the seven seven-round mock drafts included in this roundup. If both of them are drafted along with the eight Buckeyes who are comfortably projected to be selected, it will mark the 10th time Ohio State has had 10 or more players drafted in one year.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tTwo of those five mock drafts have Kacmarek staying in the Buckeye State and going to the Browns. Kacmarek told\u00a0Eleven Warriors\u00a0at Ohio State\u2019s pro day that he made a pre-draft visit to Cleveland, signaling the Browns\u2019 potential interest in him as a Day 3 draft pick to pair with 2025 third-round pick Harold Fannin Jr. at tight end.\n<\/p>\n
\tCJ Donaldson, RB<\/p>\n
\t\tRound 7, No. 223, Washington Commanders: Miller<\/p>\n
\t\tUndrafted: Draft Tek, DRAFTPLEX, Edwards, Elijah,\u00a0Iyer, Randall<\/p>\n
\n\tAverage Draft Projection: 253\u00a0(N\/A)\n<\/p>\n
\n\tESPN\u2019s Matt Miller has 11 Buckeyes being selected in his mock draft, projecting the Washington Commanders to draft Donaldson \u2013 the only other Buckeye who was invited to this year\u2019s NFL Scouting Combine \u2013\u00a0in Round 7. The other six seven-round mocks in this roundup, however, all have Donaldson going undrafted.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tOhio State has six other draft hopefuls who also participated in last month\u2019s pro day: offensive lineman Ethan Onianwa, defensive tackle Tywone Malone Jr., linebacker Joey Velazquez, kicker Jayden Fielding and long snappers John Ferlmann and Collin Johnson. None of them are currently projected to be selected in any mock drafts, though Onianwa reportedly made a pre-draft visit with the Packers, according to Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 NFL draft is less than two weeks away. All signs continue to point toward Ohio State…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-579945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579945","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=579945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}