Julian, Jeremiah, Carnell and Max Headline Big Ten Honorees
12/4/2025 1:00:00 PM | Football
Sayin is freshman of the year and Smith repeats as wide receiver of the year; first-team honors WRs/TE
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Day 2 of Big Ten Conference awards season featured two more individual awards for Buckeyes, three more first-team All-Big Ten Conference honorees and 11 offensive players earning all-conference status. Ohio State football had 27 different players receive all-conference accolades this year including nine first-team all-conference selections and six individual award winners.
Red-shirt freshman quarterback Julian Sayin was named the Big Ten’s Thompson-Randle El Freshman of the Year. Sayin is having a sensational season statistically and is a finalist this year for four national awards – the Walter Camp Award, the Maxwell Award, the Manning Award and the Davey O’Brien Award – as well as being a candidate for the Heisman Trophy. Sayin is the 12th Buckeye to earn the Big Ten’s freshman of the year award and second consecutive Buckeye (Jeremiah Smith).
The nation’s best wide receiver, Jeremiah Smith, was named the Richter-Howard Receiver of the Year for a second consecutive year, joining Marvin Harrison and Penn State’s Allen Robinson as the only two-time winners of the award. Smith is a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award and has become the fastest wide receiver in school history to catch 100 passes, reach 1,500 and 2,000 yards and catch 25 TD passes.
Smith was named first-team all-Big Ten for the second consecutive year while Sayin was second-team all-Big Ten this year.
Two others on offense earned first-team all-Big Ten honors by both the coaches and media votes: wide receiver Carnell Tate, who averages just over 35 yards per touchdown reception, and tight end Max Klare, who is third on the team in receiving behind Smith and Tate.
Additional Ohio State honorees:
- RB Bo Jackson, LG Luke Montgomery and LT Austin Siereveld earned second-team honors by the coaches and Montgomery was also named second-team on the media ballot.
- All-Big Ten third-team selections by the media were RT Phillip Daniels, Jackson, C Carson Hinzman, Siereveld and RG Tegra Tshabola.
- Honorable mention honorees were TE Will Kacmarek on both ballots and Tshabola (coaches).
