{"id":77226,"date":"2025-09-06T13:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/?p=77226"},"modified":"2025-09-16T21:34:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:34:03","slug":"ohio-state-availability-report-buckeyes-still-at-full-strength-vs-grambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2025\/09\/06\/ohio-state-availability-report-buckeyes-still-at-full-strength-vs-grambling\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State Availability Report: Buckeyes Still at Full Strength vs. Grambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Ohio State availability report was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2025\/08\/30\/ohio-state-availability-report-vs-texas-buckeyes-at-almost-full-strength\/\" target=\"_self\">about as clean as the Buckeyes could ask<\/a>. No projected starters were held out due to injury as the Buckeyes went on to beat the then-top-ranked Texas Longhorns, 14-7. In that game, a few guys were banged up. So, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2025\/09\/04\/ohio-state-finally-gets-a-break-on-the-schedule-vs-grambling-state\/\" target=\"_self\">perceived tune-up against Grambling State<\/a> from the FCS, the coaching staff could have been cautious with a few playmakers. However, despite one starter leaving the game early last week, all starters are expected to be available. However, that doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean they will play.<\/p>\n<p>The same nine Buckeyes will be unavailable on Saturday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CB Brenten &#8220;Inky&#8221; Jones<\/li>\n<li>TE Max LeBlanc<\/li>\n<li>DT Jason Moore<\/li>\n<li>QB Mason Maggs<\/li>\n<li>RB Anthony &#8220;Turbo&#8221; Rogers<\/li>\n<li>DT Maxwell Roy<\/li>\n<li>S Deshawn Stewart<\/li>\n<li>DT Ahmed Tounkara<\/li>\n<li>WR Preston Wolfe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ohio State Availability Report: Buckeyes at Full Strength vs. Grambling<\/h2>\n<p>Easily the biggest name not on the Ohio State availability report in Week 2 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/kenyatta-jackson-1.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-06_cfb\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenyatta Jackson<\/a> Jr. As the starting defensive end, Jackson Jr. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2025\/08\/30\/the-ohio-state-defense-dominates-texas\/\" target=\"_self\">played 34 snaps<\/a> against the Longhorns before being knocked out with an injury. Thankfully, last week, Ryan Day said it isn&#8217;t expected to be a long-term injury. Jackson being deemed &#8220;available&#8221; does not necessarily mean he will play, of course. Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/tyleik-williams-1.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-06_cfb\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyleik Williams<\/a> was considered available against Michigan State, but was held out due to an abundance of caution anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Like last week, there are no concerns for the Buckeyes in terms of injuries. The unfortunate thing about injuries and this game is that a good handful of the nine would likely have been able to play in mop-up duty against a lesser opponent. Either way, no excuses for the Buckeyes as they open up as a 55.5-point favorite, the largest spread in program history.<\/p>\n<p>This game is not expected to be too competitive, so tune in for the bands!<\/p>\n<p>Ohio State takes on Grambling State at 3:30 p.m. ET on the Big Ten Network.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Image: Matthew Emmons-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against Grambling, the Ohio State availability report lists no starters, giving the Buckeyes plenty of firepower to cover a historic spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4051,"featured_media":74175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,17,35609],"tags":[35507,35035,33636,1694,35503,35504,33216,35506,73,35508,3348,35505],"class_list":["post-77226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bigten","category-featured","category-news","category-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-ahmed-tounkara","tag-brenten-jones","tag-deshawn-stewart","tag-grambling-state-tigers","tag-jason-moore","tag-mason-maggs","tag-max-leblanc","tag-maxwell-roy","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-preston-wolfe","tag-ryan-day","tag-turbo-rogers"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4051"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77229,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77226\/revisions\/77229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}