Sam Wiglusz is the second horse chestnut to enter the transfer portal after last weekend’s spring game.
Following defenseman Jacolbe Cowan on Monday, Wiglusz — a fifth-year wideout who joined the Buckeyes as a walk-on of choice in the summer of 2018 — will seek to end his college football career elsewhere, a program spokesman confirmed to Eleven Warriors on Tuesday .
Wiglusz caught three passes for 25 yards in his buckeye career, including two passes for 14 yards in Ohio State’s blowout win over Michigan State last November.
Wiglusz played a career-high six games as a senior in 2021, notching a season-high 14 offensive snaps against the Spartans but only playing on special teams in three of his six appearances that year.
In Saturday’s spring game, Wiglusz caught two passes for 21 yards and was targeted four times in exhibition.
Ahead of the spring game, Ohio State head coach Ryan Day compared Wigluz to former buckeye walk-on-turn captain wideout CJ Saunders, and former teammates like Garrett Wilson have praised Wigluz’s past abilities.
Garrett Wilson says Ohio State walk-on wide receiver Sam Wiglusz is good enough that he could have started at most other schools in the country.
— Dan Hope (@Dan_Hope) December 3, 2021
A native of Brecksville, Ohio, Wiglusz was a second-team All Ohio player as a senior for Brecksville-Broadview Heights in 2017 before joining the Buckeyes thereafter.