Ryan Day drops exciting, strong update on Ohio State football QB Julian Sayin with spring football about to start up
Ryan Day is expecting big things out of Julian Sayin entering his second season at Ohio State.
The Ohio State Buckeyes weren’t able to repeat as national champions last season, and it was always going to be hard to do so with the roster turnover they faced from the previous season.
Ohio State replaced 14 draft picks from the 2024 team, including a strong leader at quarterback with Will Howard. Julian Sayin stepped in and gave the Buckeyes a terrific redshirt freshman season with the biggest accomplishment being a win over Michigan.
Now heading into his second season as a starter, expectations will pick up for Sayin in Columbus following 2025.
Ryan Day sends a strong message on Ohio State QB Julian Sayin
“This is only just a few times in my career that I’ve had a quarterback come back to play for two years in a row, so he’ll have that experience to draw back on, which is great,” Day said recently on The Jim Rome Show. “He’s a year older, in the system, has already had a great start to the offseason. I know he’s excited to get back on the field and have a veteran feel now.”
Everything he’s done now, he’s lived through it all. Once you get through the season, you come back, and you got to learn from it, and grow from it. The best quarterbacks are the ones who do that. They get better year after year, and as we’ve all seen, experience in college football matters.”
After playing in four games and attempting 12 passes as a true freshman in 2024, Sayin started all 14 games for the Buckeyes this past season. The California native was very accurate with a 77 percent completion percentage for 3,610 passing yards, 32 touchdowns, and eight interceptions.
Sayin stepped in as an undersized quarterback at 6-foot and delivered all season for the Buckeyes. The final two games for Ohio State didn’t go as planned and Sayin threw three interceptions alone against Indiana and Miami.
Ohio State breezed through its regular-season schedule and Sayin didn’t face much adversity until late November in a snow game against Michigan. The Buckeyes will have a tough schedule in 2026 with games against Texas, Oregon, USC, Indiana, and of course the Wolverines.
Now having been through it with a season of experience under his belt, Day will get a quarterback for a second year for just his second time at Ohio State. C.J. Stroud was the only other returning quarterback for Day as a head coach.
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