{"id":1162,"date":"2025-04-26T08:26:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T08:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1162\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T08:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T08:26:20","slug":"4-ohio-state-buckeyes-drafted-in-nfl-drafts-1st-round-whio-tv-7-and-whio-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1162\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Ohio State Buckeyes drafted in NFL Draft\u2019s 1st Round \u2013 WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 vUOFc body-paragraph\">COLUMBUS \u2014 Several Ohio State Buckeyes heard their name called in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 vUOFc body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\">Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 vUOFc body-paragraph\">Wide receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OhioStateFB\/status\/1915590541774848241\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OhioStateFB\/status\/1915590541774848241\">Emeka Egbuka<\/a>, guard <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OhioStateFB\/status\/1915600262019911903\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OhioStateFB\/status\/1915600262019911903\">Donovan Jackson<\/a>, defensive tackle <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OhioStateFB\/status\/1915607227282444371\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OhioStateFB\/status\/1915607227282444371\">Tyleik Williams<\/a>, and offensive tackle <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OhioStateFB\/status\/1915613367718265247\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OhioStateFB\/status\/1915613367718265247\">Josh Simmons<\/a> were each selected Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 vUOFc body-paragraph\">All four players played on the 2024 Ohio State national championship team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 vUOFc body-paragraph\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 vUOFc body-paragraph\">The Tampa Bay Buccaneers drafted Egbuka with the 19th overall pick. He set a program record with the most receptions in school history with 205 catches. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 vUOFc body-paragraph\">This is the fourth straight year an Ohio State wide receiver has been drafted in the first round, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CBSSportsCFB\/status\/1915591557719138390\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CBSSportsCFB\/status\/1915591557719138390\">CBS Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 vUOFc body-paragraph\">This includes Marvin Harrison (2024), Jaxson Smith-Njigba (2023), Garrett Wilson (2022), and Chris Olave (2022).<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 vUOFc body-paragraph\">The Minnesota Vikings selected Jackson with the 24th overall pick. He was named Second Team All-American while starting five games at left guard before moving over to left tackle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 vUOFc body-paragraph\">The Detroit Lions chose Williams with the 28th overall pick. He had 46 tackles and 2.5 sacks for the Buckeyes last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 vUOFc body-paragraph\">The Kansas City Chiefs picked Simmons with the 32nd overall pick to conclude the first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 vUOFc body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\">WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 vUOFc body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS \u2014 Several Ohio State Buckeyes heard their name called in the first round of the 2025 NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1490,702,7,1488,6,15,1572,69,1570,1566,1571,1567,1569,1568,1491],"class_list":{"0":"post-1162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-donovan-jackson","9":"tag-emeka-egbuka","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-josh-simmons","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-draft","14":"tag-ohio-news","15":"tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","16":"tag-ohio-state-football","17":"tag-ohio-state-nfl-draft-2025","18":"tag-ohio-state-wide-receiver","19":"tag-ohio-state-wide-receiver-first-round","20":"tag-osu-football","21":"tag-osu-wide-receiver-1st-round-nfl-draft","22":"tag-tyleik-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}