Austin Siereveld

The Land-Grant Holy Land headline calls Austin Siereveld "the most important non-skill player for Ohio State's 2026 offense," and the logic is hard to argue with. He's the connective tissue on a veteran front: thrust into the title run late in 2024, six starts at left guard during the championship season, then all 14 games at left tackle in 2025, where he allowed zero sacks protecting Sayin's blind side and earned second-team All-Big Ten from both the coaches and the media. The man is a Swiss-army anchor on a line that has to go from competent to elite.

The twist is that the door he held open got pushed by his own absence. A lower-body surgery shut Siereveld down for the rest of spring, and Ian Moore — building on a strong second half of the Cotton Bowl after Siereveld left injured — held up against Ohio State's best ends well enough that, in Eleven Warriors' words, he may not give the job back. Neither Ryan Day nor line coach Tyler Bowen would commit a position this spring; both kept circling back to the same word, flexibility. The likeliest five has Moore at left tackle and Siereveld kicking inside to right guard, which is where many evaluators always thought he belonged anyway.

That's the question the message boards are chewing on heading into summer camp: do you leave your safest, sack-free answer on the blind side, or do you trust the younger tackle and move Siereveld to guard, where his frame and demeanor fit like a glove? He'll start somewhere — that was never in doubt. The 2026 season turns on whether Ohio State guesses right about where.