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Ohio State football defensive tackle Ty Hamilton announces return for fifth season
Ty Hamilton, a redshirt junior defensive tackle, announced Monday he is returning to Ohio State next season.
In a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Hamilton cited “unfinished business that needs to be taken care of for the brotherhood.”
His return leaves the Buckeyes with one of their top interior defensive linemen from this past fall. He split time with Mike Hall Jr. as the starting tackle alongside Tyleik Williams and was a productive run stopper.
Hamilton’s 4.5 tackles for loss this past season ranked fourth among the Buckeyes, while he also finished with two sacks. Two of those tackles behind the line of scrimmage occurred during a 14-3 loss to Missouri in the Cotton Bowl.
Both Hamilton and Williams will be back in 2024, as is defensive end Jack Sawyer, leaving Ohio State with a stable of returners on its defensive line, while Hall is entering the NFL draft.
A native of Pickerington and the younger brother of former Buckeyes defensive tackle DaVon Hamilton, he has made 11 career starts at Ohio State.
Joey Kaufman covers Ohio State football for The Columbus Dispatch and can be reached at jkaufman@dispatch.com.
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers and former Ohio State wide receiver Emeka Egbuka is defending former Buckeye Carnell Tate.
Tate has received some scrutiny after he was selected as the first wide receiver in the 2026 NFL Draft, despite not having been Ohio State’s top receiver target in college. Appearing on the “Up and Adams” show May 6, Egbuka shut down the narrative that meant Tate would not find success with the Tennessee Titans.
“I mean, we can see the correlation,” Egbuka said. “That was the same talk that was about me when I was coming out of the draft. At the end of the day, it’s all semantics. If you can play football, you can play football, and Carnell Tate can play football.”
Selected with the No. 20 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, Egbuka finished his final college season with 1,011 receiving yards, more than 300 fewer than Jeremiah Smith in his freshman year. Egbuka led the team in receptions with 81 compared to Smith’s 76 catches.
With Buccaneers wide receivers Mike Evans and Chris Godwin Jr. playing fewer than 10 games during the 2025 season due to injuries, Egbuka led the team in receiving yards with 938. He finished fifth in 2025 AP Offensive Rookie of the Year voting.
Tate, the No. 4 overall pick in this year’s draft, was called a “talented player” by New York Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers during Bleacher Report’s draft night coverage on April 23, but Nabers questioned Tate’s selection.
“I don’t see him being a number one,” Nabers said. “He hasn’t been the number one on the team he’s been on. You have to be a number one on the team that you’re coming from to be a number one receiver on the team you’re going to. … You can’t be the second.”
Green Bay Packers edge rusher Micah Parsons, also on the broadcast, quickly dismissed Nabers’ statement by bringing up that former Buckeyes receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba was a second option while in college.
“You said you got to be number one on the team that you’re coming from. … [Jaxon Smith-Njigba] was not number one. Bro, you got to understand that the number one [Ohio State] player will be the number one pick in the draft next year. … Give him a chance to fulfill the role,” Parsons said.
Tate finished the 2025 season with 875 receiving yards and nine touchdowns, second to Smith with 1,243 receiving yards and 12 touchdowns.
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