Ohio State Football: The one player Ohio State needs from transfer portal
The Ohio State football team needs to plug a few holes on its roster or 2023. Here is one player still available to them.
The Ohio State football team has some major areas of concern when it comes to the construction of the 2023 team. With a glaring need for a starting caliber offensive tackle and cornerback, the Buckeyes and head coach Ryan Day missed the boat on the early wave of transfer portal players.
Having swung and missed on former Rhode Island tackle Ajani Cornelius, who enrolled at Oregon, Ohio State really wasn’t close to grabbing anybody else. And while getting former Syracuse safety Ja’Had Carter to Columbus was a huge get for defensive coordinator Jim Knowles, they lost out on other corners such as Fentrell Cypress, JQ Hardaway, and Duce Chestnut.
Just about all of 247Sports top 100 transfer portal players have committed to play somewhere in 2023. With Ohio State only grabbing one of them, Ryan Day and the coaching staff’s best course of action is to probably wait until after spring practices are over to see what else might become available to them.
But if they want to go ahead and try to fill their voids with what’s still available to them, here’s the one player Ohio State should look at.
Kiyaunta Goodwin, Offensive Tackle
Kiyaunta Goodwin is a freshman tackle who played at Kentucky last season and decided to enter the portal after one year in Lexington. He barely saw any action for the Wildcats last season as it’s often hard for offensive linemen to transition quickly from high school to college football. But Goodwin was a top 40 national recruit in 2022 and standing at 6-foot-8 and weighing 340 pounds, Goodwin has the size to come in and at least compete right away.
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He reminds me a lot of Dawand Jones, and Goodwin is also from the state of Indiana, like Jones. Now starting right away might be a stretch considering he’s only going into his second season and is already in the transfer portal, but this is absolutely the type of player who Justin Frye can develop and hopefully by 2024 Goodwin can help fill a recruiting gap at offensive tackle that took place from 2021-2022.