While nearly half of Ohio State’s current scholarship players are eligible to enter the 2022 NFL draft, only five of them will actually be out of eligibility after the Rose Bowl.
Because the NCAA gave all players an additional year of eligibility in 2020, the only players who can’t return to the Buckeyes after this season are the players who would have exhausted their eligibility last season that are already using their extra year of eligibility. Everyone else, including seniors who have already played four seasons of college football without redshirting, could still return for another season in 2022.