{"id":863616,"date":"2026-04-11T02:45:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T02:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/863616\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T02:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T02:45:33","slug":"ohio-states-ryan-day-finally-responds-to-nipple-ring-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/863616\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State&#8217;s Ryan Day finally responds to nipple ring speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio State football coach Ryan Day couldn\u2019t help but laugh over speculation online that he has a nipple piercing.<\/p>\n<p>During Wednesday\u2019s installment of the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PsFPvjcLbbg?si=UWFyaxTBQ3YVfe3Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cNot Just Football\u201d podcast<\/a>, Day was asked by host Cam Heyward if he \u201cgot a nipple ring\u201d \u2014 and referenced the coach\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BarstoolBigCat\/status\/1961839348648706470\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">viral moment<\/a> at the Buckeyes\u2019 season opener against Texas on Aug. 30.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Day made waves online when screengrabs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RKDjv3g23KA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">his interview with Fox Sports\u2019 Jenny Taft <\/a>appeared to show him with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BarstoolBigCat\/status\/1961839348648706470\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a nipple piercing<\/a> under his Nike collared shirt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I kind of thought it gave me some street cred there for a second,\u201d Day said with a laugh. \u201cBut unfortunately no, I\u2019m not that cool. I don\u2019t know.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Heyward, a 15-year NFL veteran with the Steelers and former defensive tackle for Ohio State, joked that he \u201chad to bring it up.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Heyward added that he asked his Steelers teammates and former Buckeyes players Will Howard and Jack Sawyer about Day\u2019s viral moment when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EXUGifr5whw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">they appeared on the \u201cNot Just Football\u201d podcast<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, the amount of times I\u2019ve been asked that question,\u201d Howard said at the time, adding that both he and Sawyer were at the game, where No. 3 Ohio State defeated No. 1 Texas, 14-7.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39051213\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/day-2.jpg\" alt=\"Head coach Ryan Day of the Ohio State Buckeyes looks on during warmups before the 2025 Big Ten Football Championship against the Indiana Hoosiers at Lucas Oil Stadium on December 6, 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana.   \" class=\"wp-image-39051213\"  \/>Head coach Ryan Day of the Ohio State Buckeyes looks on during warmups before the 2025 Big Ten Football Championship against the Indiana Hoosiers at Lucas Oil Stadium on December 6, 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana.    Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDidn\u2019t we mess with him a couple times about that?\u201d Sawyer said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh yeah\u2026 I\u2019m hoping it was just a really bad angle I really haven\u2019t gotten confirmation,\u201d Howard joked. <\/p>\n<p>Heyward, who was a first-round pick by the Steelers in the 2011 NFL draft, did not play for Day, who took the head coach job at Ohio State in 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/ohio-state-head-coach-ryan-day-and-wife-ninas-relationship-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ohio State football coach Ryan Day couldn\u2019t help but laugh over speculation online that he has a nipple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[331,7,49,48,69,2250,9,10,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-863616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","13":"tag-ryan-day","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-entertainment","16":"tag-sports-media"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116383786507090437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863616","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=863616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}