Austin Siereveld

#67 · OL · Sr. · Ohio State6′5″ · 327 lb · Liberty Township, OH · Lakota East

Last gameL 18–30at USC · Oct 31
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The team’s line is 34th in the country in passing-downs success rate this season (a team number).

Ohio State is 6-2, No. 11 in the AP poll (week 10).

What’s being said

12 stories in the last 30 days, from 6 outlets.

Oct 10: 1Oct 11: 1Oct 13: 1Oct 14: 3Oct 15: 1Oct 27: 1Oct 28: 2Oct 29: 1Nov 3: 1W 45-16 vs MarylandWW 19-15 at IndianaWL 18-30 at USCLOct 6Nov 4Most in a day: 3
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Stories per day. W and L: the team’s results.

Austin Siereveld points to snap count to fix errors on Ohio State O-line

The Columbus Dispatch +1 Nov 3

All 21 stories this season

The story

Written , before the 2026 season

The Land-Grant Holy Land headline calls Austin Siereveld "the most important non-skill player for Ohio State's 2026 offense," and the logic is hard to argue with. He's the connective tissue on a veteran front: thrust into the title run late in 2024, six starts at left guard during the championship season, then all 14 games at left tackle in 2025, where he allowed zero sacks protecting Sayin's blind side and earned second-team All-Big Ten from both the coaches and the media. The man is a Swiss-army anchor on a line that has to go from competent to elite.

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The twist is that the door he held open got pushed by his own absence. A lower-body surgery shut Siereveld down for the rest of spring, and Ian Moore — building on a strong second half of the Cotton Bowl after Siereveld left injured — held up against Ohio State's best ends well enough that, in Eleven Warriors' words, he may not give the job back. Neither Ryan Day nor line coach Tyler Bowen would commit a position this spring; both kept circling back to the same word, flexibility. The likeliest five has Moore at left tackle and Siereveld kicking inside to right guard, which is where many evaluators always thought he belonged anyway.

That's the question the message boards are chewing on heading into summer camp: do you leave your safest, sack-free answer on the blind side, or do you trust the younger tackle and move Siereveld to guard, where his frame and demeanor fit like a glove? He'll start somewhere — that was never in doubt. The 2026 season turns on whether Ohio State guesses right about where.

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Style of play

Style of play

Play style, written June 30, before the season

How he plays: a 6-foot-5, 325-pound interior body who keeps getting trusted on the edge. The book on Siereveld is power and anchor — a downhill, heavy-handed run blocker who plays with leverage and a wide base, the kind of mauler evaluators slot at guard and dare you to move. The tell is that Ohio State kept him at left tackle for 14 starts and he allowed zero sacks anyway, which says his footwork and pass sets are far better than the 'project him inside' label suggests. He's a finisher in the run game, comfortable pulling and climbing to the second level, and his four-position versatility (he's logged left guard and left tackle in live games) is the real superpower. No play-by-play percentiles were available for this read, so this is a scouting view: think dependable, scheme-flexible, technically sound — a coach's lineman whose floor is high precisely because he can plug any leak on the front.