Skull Session: Emeka Egbuka Goes From Bucks to Bucs, Will Howard and Jack Sawyer Will Reunite in Pittsburgh and the Arizona Cardinals Are Now the Arizona Buckeyes

By Chase Brown on April 28, 2025 at 5:00 am
Denzel Burke, Marvin Harrison Jr. and Caleb Downs
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Welcome to the Skull Session.

The #content came out of a firehose this weekend. That means it's time for another Rapid Fire Skull Session™.

Question before we start: Is this good?

Have a good Monday.

 BUCKS TO BUCS. This Ohio State football video of Emeka Egbuka's draft experience made me smile!

Bucks → Bucs

Let's Go Buc(k)s!

 THE STANDARD IS THE STANDARD. For the past four years, Egbuka has been a great ambassador for Ohio State football. He will continue to be one in the NFL.

Remember: The standard is the standard, and the standard is excellence — that is, the People, the Tradition, the Excellence.

 BAD TAKE! Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man.

Get a load of this guy...

Oregon's top wide receivers in 2021:

  • Devon Williams
  • Kris Hutson
  • Johnny Johnson III
  • Troy Franklin
  • Jaylon Redd
  • Mycah Pittman

Ohio State's top wide receivers in 2021:

  • Chris Olave
  • Garrett Wilson
  • Jaxon Smith-Njigba
  • Marvin Harrison Jr.
  • Emeka Egbuka
  • Julian Fleming

Who's gonna tell him?

 GOOD TAKE! It's Newton's Third Law: Every bad take needs an equal and opposite good take.

It's simply too good...

 LEMONADE MOUTH. One of the best moments in the NFL draft came when the Cleveland Browns tried to call Quinshon Judkins before selecting him with the No. 36 overall pick in the second round.

Judkins swears he wasn't in the bathroom; he was in the kitchen, pouring lemonade instead.

I believe him... but my Tommy Gun don't!

Just kidding — I believe him.

Thanks for the laugh, Quinshon.

 ONE-LEGGED WILLY. Another one of the best moments from the NFL draft was a video of Will Howard's reaction to the Pittsburgh Steelers selecting him with the No. 185 overall pick in the sixth round.

Oh, all the feels!

All the feels!

 TWO PEAS IN A POD. In an appearance on NFL Live earlier this month, Howard was asked which Ohio State teammate he would want to join forces with in the NFL.

The first name that came to Howard's mind?

Jack Sawyer.

It's so freakin' cool that Howard and Sawyer will be teammates at the next level. However, it's not so freakin' cool that the former Buckeyes will be teammates on the Steelers. That produces immense pain as a Browns fan!

 TWO PEAS IN A POD (PART TWO). The New England Patriots selected TreVeyon Henderson with the No. 38 overall pick in the second round and signed Gee Scott Jr. as an undrafted free agent.

I am pleased to see that the Ohio State duo will connect at New England's rookie camp. However, I am not so pleased with Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel.

Why?

Because the Patriots had the final pick in the 2025 NFL draft, and with the Buckeyes one selection from matching Georgia's record for the most selections in a single draft (15), the Patriots picked former Memphis cornerback Kobee Minor instead of Scott, Seth McLaughlin or Josh Fryar.

What the heck, Mike?!

 SIX PEAS IN A POD...? Don't call them the Arizona Cardinals; call them the Arizona Buckeyes.

In 2023, the Cardinals drafted Paris Johnson Jr. with the No. 6 overall pick. In 2024, the Cardinals drafted Marvin Harrison Jr. with the No. 4 overall pick. And in 2025, the Cardinals added Justin Frye to their staff, drafted Cody Simon (No. 115 in Round 4) and Denzel Burke (No. 174 in Round 5) and signed Josh Fryar as an undrafted free agent.

Six peas in a pod!

 MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, MONEY... MONEY! For an undrafted free agent, Fryar got paidddddd.

According to Aaron Wilson of KPRC Houston, Fryar signed the third-largest deal among undrafted free agents in 2025.

Wilson also reported that Fryar's deal included a $35,000 signing bonus and a $234,000 base salary. Quick math tells me that's $269,000 guaranteed for the former Ohio State stalwart.

Not bad!

Not bad at all!

 RIVALS TO TEAMMATES. The Cardinals added three Buckeyes in 2025. They also added one Wolverine.

Former Michigan cornerback Will Johnson fell from potential top-10 pick to Day 2 after doctors spotted a potential issue with one of Johnson's knees during the pre-draft process. Arizona scooped him up with the No. 47 overall pick in the second round.

Harrison welcomed Johnson to Arizona with a post on Instagram:

Those Cardinals practices will be wild.

 S'MORE #CONTENT. Tyleik Williams loves cats. He has two of them, Mango and S'more!

Here's S'more content to end the Skull Session...

... see what I did there?

 SONG OF THE DAY. “Some Protector” - ROLE MODEL.

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