{"id":600411,"date":"2026-02-19T06:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/600411\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T06:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:21:09","slug":"ohio-state-qb-coach-billy-fessler-lauds-tavien-st-clairs-ceiling-after-first-year-with-buckeyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/600411\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State QB coach Billy Fessler lauds Tavien St. Clair&#8217;s ceiling after first year with Buckeyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few commitments generated as much excitement in Ohio State&#8217;s 2025 recruiting class as five-star Ohio\u00a0prospect <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/tavien-st-clair-46133409\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tavien St. Clair<\/a><\/b>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>St. Clair finished as the No. 4 prospect and No. 3 quarterback in the 2025 cycle per 247Sports&#8217; rankings, but the Bellefontaine native came to Columbus with the understanding he&#8217;d need time to develop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his freshman season, the 6-foot-4, 230-pound signal caller served as the Buckeyes&#8217; third-string quarterback. He played 13 total snaps in his first campaign at <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/ohio-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ohio State<\/a><\/b>, appearing briefly in the Buckeyes&#8217; blowout win over <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/grambling-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Grambling State<\/a><\/b>, throwing two passes in the 70-0 victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few commitments generated as much excitement in Ohio State&#8217;s 2025 recruiting class as five-star Ohio\u00a0prospect Tavien St. Clair.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":600412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-600411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116095856566824601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}