If you didn’t think that Ohio State was the current gold standard in college football or that the Buckeyes are the program by which most others will measure themselves against, an overly confident Ryan Day sure seemed to underscore it during an early NFL draft segment Thursday night on ABC.
When asked a question about safety Caleb Downs, he proceeded to launch a long soliloquy about how screwed up Downs was coming out of the transfer portal from Alabama while sitting right next to former Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban. It was all done in jest for some delayed laughter, but it was notable that Day was in such a position to start cracking jokes at the expense of someone who often used the draft to serve as the ultimate validation for his spot atop the sport.
