COLUMBUS, Ohio — A total of 15 Ohio State football players were among the 56 student-athletes who received their degrees during the autumn commencement ceremony Sunday at the Jerome Schottenstein Center.
These new Buckeyes join a list of eight players who have previously graduated, giving Ohio State a roster of 20 players who have now graduated.
Cade Stover, a first-team all-Big Ten Conference tight end, and Emeka Egbuka, who has caught 118 passes for 1,792 and 14 touchdowns in his three seasons, headline the list of latest graduates from the football team.
Gene Smith, The Ohio State University senior vice president and director of athletics, delivered the commencement address to approximately 3,600 new graduates.
See below a complete list of this year's Buckeye football graduates:
- WR Emeka Egbuka – Marketing
- WR Julian Fleming – Human development and family science
- OL Jakob James – Sport Industry
- OL Trey Leroux – Finance
- DE Mitchell Melton – Communication
- OL Harry Miller – Mechanical engineering
- P Jesse Mirco – Sport Industry
- *DT Quinn Pitcock – Family resource management
- SAF Lathan Ransom – Communication
- TE Joe Royer – Sport Industry
- LB Cody Simon – Finance
- TE Cade Stover – Agricultural systems management
- OL Grant Toutant – Human development and family science
- RB Chip Trayanum – Family resource management
- OG Enokk Vimahi – Human development and family science
*Degree Completion Program
Prior Graduates – Ohio State Football
- LB Steele Chambers – Finance
- LB Tommy Eichenberg – Real estate
- WR Xavier Johnson – Consumer and family financial services
- OG Matthew Jones – Human development and family science
- DT Jaden McKenzie – Human development and family science
- SAF Josh Proctor – Human development and family science
- SAF Kourt Williams – Communications