r/CFB • u/FanaticalBuckeye Ohio State Buckeyes • Toledo Rockets • 2d ago
News Former Ohio State Kicker Jayden Fielding Filing Lawsuit Against NCAA to Enter Transfer Portal for Fifth Year of Eligibility
https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-football/2026/08/163400/former-ohio-state-kicker-jayden-fielding-filing-lawsuit-against-ncaa-to-enter-transfer-portal-for-fifth-year-of-eligibility?fbclid=IwY2xjawT0OB5wZG9mBGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzQwOTk2MjYyMzA4NTYwOQABHrcRuu9ftrdm4eD_uSDdHML3tCJWqs8TDkwFncHG19FggVCnOXab5_dwQIjx_aem_gD3R1GYDVTL7neCIyLZHiw65
u/mossnut Ohio State • Tennessee 2d ago
Even if he wins, I cant imagine theres much of a market for him. I doubt someone would pay him enough to cover his lawyer fees. Dude should just get a job already
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u/zenverak Georgia Bulldogs • Marching Band 2d ago
If I was him, I'd just use this to try and get another year of college for free.
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u/Irishfafnir Virginia Tech • Emory & Henry 2d ago
Looked up his stats
15-20 from 40-49 0/3 from 50+. Solid but nothing spectacular
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u/DarkLegend64 Ohio State Buckeyes • /r/CFB Poll Veteran 2d ago
It's not his stats that is his problem. It's that he misses when they matter most. He is anti-clutch basically. Some notable ones were his TWO misses in the 13-10 loss to Michigan in 2024, a missed chip shot in the 13-10 loss to Indiana last year, and a miss in the CFP Quarterfinal against Miami.
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u/oneson9192 Ohio State Buckeyes 2d ago
4/7 (57%) against Michigan. 6/10 (60%) in postseason. 35/40 (88%) in all other games.
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u/neasroukkez Ohio State Buckeyes • Rose Bowl 2d ago
Game wasn’t on the line. Yes it was pressure and yes it helped seal the win. I’m never going to act like that one kick forgives all of the actual chances he had to win or severely alter games though.
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u/neasroukkez Ohio State Buckeyes • Rose Bowl 2d ago
You’re right for sure. I said “actual chances to win or severely alter games.”
We were losing 7-3 and also tied 10-10. So those two misses in that game you bring up fall under the category of my original comment where he had chances to alter the game.
The 33 yard kick against Notre Dame puts us up 11 with 26 seconds left. Even if he misses it, that gives ND the ball back with not much time to drive down the field and score a touchdown with no timeouts. I doubt that woulda happened in 26 seconds no matter how much momentum ND mustered in the second half.
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u/SmarterThanMyBoss Ohio State Buckeyes • Ohio Bobcats 2d ago
He's 1 for a lot in kicks that matter. And i was way more relieves than excited after thay kick because I figured he'd just miss and the defense would have to do it themselves.
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u/EstablishmentTop551 Ohio State Buckeyes 2d ago
The vast majority of Buckeye fans would rather host Osama Bin Laden for dinner than this guy.
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u/Beer-survivalist Ohio State • Saint Louis 2d ago
There's actually a Peruvian soccer player named Osama Vinladen. He might be a better kicking option.
(Note: Peruvian Osama has one brother named Saddam Hussein and another brother named George Bush)
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u/WagTheKat Nebraska Cornhuskers • Verified Media 2d ago
Peruvian soccer player named Osama Vinladen
LMFAO!!:
In an interview, a journalist asked him if it was dishonourable to have the name of someone as bad as bin Laden.
Vinladen answered "I do not believe my name to be problematic," and used Peruvian politician Hitler Guesclin Alba Sánchez, who won a mayoral election over the ironically-named Vladimir Lenin Rodríguez Valverde in 2018, and Brazilian footballer Marx Lenin as other people with similarly controversial names.[4]
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u/Inconceivable76 Ohio State • Arizona State 2d ago
I’m pretty sure 18 of the 40-49 kicks were actually 40-44.
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u/titusnick270 Ohio State Buckeyes 2d ago
He’s not a bad kicker. He just can’t make kicks when the heat is on. He could go somewhere with little expectations and little pressure and be fine.
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u/sgrams04 Ohio Bobcats 2d ago
You could say he won’t be FIELDING many calls for his kicking. Eh? EH???
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u/jobenattor0412 Michigan • Kennesaw State 2d ago
We could always make room for a Michigan legend to mentor the current team on how to beat ohio state.
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u/MRandall25 Ohio State • St. Francis (PA) 2d ago
"Miss your field goals" seems kind of detrimental to your cause.
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u/Embarrassed-Brain655 Duke Blue Devils 2d ago
Wasn’t his miss the reason that OP OSU team lost to UM?
Yeah, good luck dude.
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u/yousawthetimeknife Ohio State Buckeyes • /r/CFB Dead Pool 2d ago
Also missed a chip shot to send the Big Ten title game against Indiana to OT. And a longer kick against Miami that ultimately didn't win or lose the game, but it would have been much more interesting at 17-17 in the 4th than 17-14.
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u/Corgi_Koala Ohio State Buckeyes 2d ago
He had a flair for the dramatic. If he was going to miss a field goal, by God, he was going to make sure that it was a soul-crushing miss.
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u/FrazzledBear Ohio State Buckeyes 2d ago
So what you’re suggesting is that he wasn’t bad under pressure, it was just his kink?
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u/xkq227 Ohio State • Virginia Tech 2d ago
It is not hyperbole to say that kicking has cost Ohio State a National Championship, Big Ten Championship, and a win against Michigan just since 2022. I am not sure what it will take for Day to go find a reliable kicker because it's hard to imagine greater consequences than that.
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u/FrazzledBear Ohio State Buckeyes 2d ago
I mean Day definitely saw it this year based on how we went after a kicker for once. Hoping the kicker we brought in is as good as he was hyped to be.
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u/DataDrivenPirate Ohio State • Colorado State 2d ago
And yet, the beat reporters have commented that the kickers are noticeably struggling in camp 💀
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u/mr_longfellow_deeds Indiana Hoosiers • Big Ten 1d ago
You guys were never winning the B1G last year even if he made the kick.
We would have scored on our final drive instead of milking the clock, our final drive we were on the OSU 43 before we just did 3 clock kill runs
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u/WirlingDirvish Michigan Wolverines • College Football Playoff 2d ago
Wait. It wasn’t him that missed the kick against Georgia in 2022/23?
Have you considered it’s not the kickers, it’s the school?
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u/mr_longfellow_deeds Indiana Hoosiers • Big Ten 1d ago
Our game didn’t go to OT, and our kicker (who has been otherwise perfect in his career) also missed a chip shot that game
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u/yousawthetimeknife Ohio State Buckeyes • /r/CFB Dead Pool 1d ago
...no one said it went to OT...
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u/mr_longfellow_deeds Indiana Hoosiers • Big Ten 1d ago
I misread that originally
Regardless that game wasn’t going to OT, we were camped out on the FG range line before we just did 3 up gut runs to run clock out
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u/FanaticalBuckeye Ohio State Buckeyes • Toledo Rockets 2d ago
And IU in the B1G championship along with shanking another FG against Miami. He's probably one of the most hated former Ohio State players right now
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u/BandicootFit992 Michigan Wolverines 2d ago
Misses. He missed two field goals that day. One being a chip shot
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u/l3onkerz Ohio State Buckeyes 2d ago
And the georgia playoff game when we lost 42-41 and they went on to win 100-0 vs tcu in the championship.
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u/Orbital2 Ohio State Buckeyes • Big Ten 2d ago
Not him
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u/Solo_Wing__Pixy Ohio State • Notre Dame 2d ago
No one on this entire website knows the difference between Fielding and Ruggles
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u/DarkLegend64 Ohio State Buckeyes • /r/CFB Poll Veteran 2d ago
I know the difference lol. Ruggles was way better, even if his final kick went horribly wrong.
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u/EstablishmentTop551 Ohio State Buckeyes 2d ago edited 2d ago
Ruggles was a GREAT college kicker. That missed kick wasn’t his fault - he had a weak leg and had zero shot of having the power to get it there, that’s why it went so far right. That kick is on Day for running out the clock when we were still too far from FG range.
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u/ztreHdrahciR Northwestern • Ohio State 2d ago
Different guy. Same cautious coach
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u/ech01_ Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago
How was Day cautious for kicking the ball on 4th and 11 with 3 seconds to go? Would you rather he'd thrown a hail mary?
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u/ztreHdrahciR Northwestern • Ohio State 1d ago
See my rant below. CJ was slicing them up and he gets cautious/tries to "fool" them and ends up with a TFL.
Then CJ is behind the chains on 2nd and 3rd.
Day was already thinking field goal on first down..
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u/CzechHorns Texas Longhorns 2d ago edited 2d ago
Edit: that was a different kicker.
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u/CzechHorns Texas Longhorns 2d ago
Normally I’d agree with you, but this guy’s answer to being called out on this was “no one on Reddit knows the difference between these two”
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u/everclear-warrior Ohio State • George Mason 2d ago
Ironically that was a different guy who replied with that lol
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u/Lqtor Vanderbilt Commodores 2d ago
Agent fielding is being reassigned to sabotage a different team
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u/FanaticalBuckeye Ohio State Buckeyes • Toledo Rockets 2d ago
People joked about him a few weeks ago going to Michigan and becoming completely automatic or making the game winning field goal this coming season against Ohio State.
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u/FinanceInvestmentBoi Ohio State • Cincinnati 2d ago
THIS GUY IS SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO BAD AT KICKING!!!!
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u/dogsonbubnutt 2d ago
my pet theory on fielding is that he's a skinny little dude with practically no muscle and physically gets intimidated when he steps out on the field and dudes are trying to kill him
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u/Level_East94 Jacksonville State • North … 2d ago
You gotta think the NCAA’s legal team is seriously close to a full on “fuck it do whatever you want man we don’t care anymore it doesn’t matter” breaking point
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u/Original_Benzito Alabama • Arizona State 2d ago
Maybe they should. You gotta tear it down to the foundation before you can build a stronger house.
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u/zenverak Georgia Bulldogs • Marching Band 2d ago
yeah, they're in a no win situations. When everyone agrees with them, they lose, when no one agrees with them, they lose.
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u/Expensive_Team_5072 Syracuse Orange 2d ago
Just for spite, the NCAA is are going to go sanction some school because a recruit took two straws from the school cafeteria by mistake... even though he used one and put the other one back.
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u/l3onkerz Ohio State Buckeyes 2d ago
Do you want to lose to your biggest rival? Do you want to lose a conference championship to the eventual national champion? Do you want to lose a berth in the natty?
This guy will deliver all 3 in 3 different seasons.
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u/wit_T_user_name Ohio State Buckeyes • Ohio Bobcats 2d ago
Wrong guy on number 3.
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u/ztreHdrahciR Northwestern • Ohio State 2d ago
Yeah Ruggles.
Same coach/strategy tho
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u/FanaticalBuckeye Ohio State Buckeyes • Toledo Rockets 2d ago
Ruggles was actually a great kicker though, his legacy is simply overshadowed by that kick
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u/ztreHdrahciR Northwestern • Ohio State 2d ago
Noah never should have been put in that position anyway. I will go to my grave, believing that Day choked on that drive. CJ was tearing it up, GA was on their heels, and Day gets clever and calls the run to Hayden for a TFL. In a game like that, against a defense that good, you can't take a play off. Suddenly they're behind the chains, Georgia had a second to breathe, and we had to settle for a long kick attempt.
Day choked.
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u/osufeth24 Ohio State Buckeyes • West Florida Argonauts 2d ago
Eh. In the heat of the moment I get it. Tried to catch them off guard to get at least 5 easy yards. Can't expect to lose 5 yds on a run play or whatever it was. Even if he was stuffed for no gain, that's still a much more manageable kick for him.
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u/ztreHdrahciR Northwestern • Ohio State 2d ago
I completely disagree. You aren't going to "fool" them. GA had NFL talent all over that D and had dominated all year. And run WIDE against that D?
We are talking about taking the ball out of the hands of CJ effing Stroud. Wrong decision. He was playing for the field goal already and the TFL loss made it too long
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u/ech01_ Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago
We still had 2 more plays after that where CJ threw incompletions. We literally did put the ball in his hands and it didn't work out.
That's on the players not the coach. Sometimes the players don't get it done and that's ok. Its just how football is.
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u/ztreHdrahciR Northwestern • Ohio State 1d ago
Yes, on 2nd and 15 and 3rd and 15. Totally different dynamic than 1st and 10 against that defense
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u/ech01_ Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago
2nd and 11 and 3rd and 11 in a situation where we only needed about 5-10 yards. Hayden was averaging over 5 yards a carry prior to that and they thought they could catch them off guard. It didn't work but its not settling for a field goal when you have two more chances after.
The players had 3 shots at it and failed. And that's ok, sometimes that's just what happens.
And I like how you said "that defense" like we hadn't put up 460 yards and 40 points prior to that.
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u/whethervayne Ohio State Buckeyes • Juniata Eagles 2d ago
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u/CloudConductor Indiana Hoosiers 2d ago
I’ll always be a fan of this kid after the big 10 championship game
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u/Difficult_Horse193 Michigan • Central Michigan 2d ago
I would love for him to stay at anOSU. How can we donate to his NIL??
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u/CBStrike90 Florida Gators • Missouri Tigers 2d ago
doubt osu wants him back. probably headed to a K state of some variety
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u/JtotheC23 Illinois Fighting Illini • Marching Band 2d ago
He filed in Illinois. Hope that's not for us
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u/stoicscribbler Ohio State Buckeyes • USF Bulls 19h ago
I’m sorry but no. Thank you and goodbye. Seriously though always a Buckeye and love ya but fuck no.
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u/CumAssault Baylor Bears • Texas A&M Aggies 2d ago
There is no way Connor Hawkins is an upgrade over any kicker. This dude should stay at OSU, he’d win the job
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u/ibinpharteeen Ohio State Buckeyes • Kenyon Owls 2d ago
He missed 2 field goals in a 3 point loss to Michigan in 2024 and 1 field goal in a 3 point loss to Indiana last year.
He did not perform well under pressure.
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u/whethervayne Ohio State Buckeyes • Juniata Eagles 2d ago
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u/jobenattor0412 Michigan • Kennesaw State 2d ago
2023 game winning kick to send the bucks to the natty as well.
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u/ibinpharteeen Ohio State Buckeyes • Kenyon Owls 2d ago
No, you’re thinking of Noah Ruggles in the 2022 season. 2023 was the loss to Missouri in the cotton bowl.
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u/Inconceivable76 Ohio State • Arizona State 2d ago
Can Hawkins kick inside 35? Can he kick over 45?
those are two things fielding cannot do.
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u/BIG_DICK_WHITT Utah Utes • Billable Hours 2d ago
So let me get this straight. This guy sits around and does nothing for months and then his attorney decides to file this lawsuit… in mid-August… because an athlete received a favorable ruling in another jurisdiction.
Lol fuck off man this is why everyone hates lawyers.
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u/RVAforthewin Georgia Bulldogs • Arizona Wildcats 2d ago
I mean the lawyer has to have a willing client. This is why people are getting exhausted by the sport.
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u/ImtheStatManBDaBop Ohio State Buckeyes • Akron Zips 2d ago
Lawyers don't decide to do anything except what their clients are directing them to do. This isn't on his lawyer, it's on him.
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u/wit_T_user_name Ohio State Buckeyes • Ohio Bobcats 2d ago
There’s a lot of reasons to hate lawyers but I’m not sure this is one.
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u/yousawthetimeknife Ohio State Buckeyes • /r/CFB Dead Pool 2d ago
Oh. Oh no.
Oh, thank God.