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May 13, 2025 10 mins
As part of our #513Day broadcast from the Lindner Center at the University of Cincinnati, we were joined by UC tight end Joe Royer.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Hey four four ESPN fifteen thirty. I'm Ledger. Broadcasting is
from the Lender Center at the University of Cincinnati. It
is five to one free day. You did not hear
in that top of our update, breaking news. Pete Rose

(00:20):
has been pulled off Baseball's ineligible list along with shoeless
Joe Jackson. That's a thing. That's a thing that's happening.
He's now eligible for the Hall of Fame. We'll get
to that coming up here in just a bit. Broadcasting
from UC for five to one three day. Our best
laid plans were to broadcast from the UC Baseball Stadium.
Because of the threat of rain, we're not doing that,
so we've moved inside to the Linder Center, where we

(00:42):
are joined by the Pride of Elder and a guy
who about a year from now is going to be
going through rookie Minnie camp in the NFL. Joe Royer,
what's going on?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Hi?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
How you doing?

Speaker 1 (00:51):
I'm well fifteen minutes early. You've had to sit here
with me.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
No athlete time is typically not fifteen minutes early, So
thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
What's going on another much? We start up on Monday, Okay,
I think that's the nineteenth. Had a couple of weeks off,
so I was down in Florida for a week, just
been hanging out, working out.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, getting ready for your final college football season.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Correct?

Speaker 1 (01:12):
What sort of emotions have come to mind when when
you hear that?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, it's surreal. You know, it took a while to
get to where I'm at, So I just want to,
you know, not take it for granted, live it up.
And I'm just I'm excited for the season to come around.
And I haven't really thought too much about it, but yeah,
this is my last one, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
What's different about this team this year?

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, we added a bunch of great additions, you know,
starting on the offensive side, you know, completely revamped wide
receiver room. You know, we got some playmakers over there
who will make you know, Brendan's job easy, my job easier.
And we got Tawie Walker running back. Running backs room
is going to be great. Evan Pryor's hell of a

(01:55):
player as well. And then obviously we got Brendan, you know,
great quarterback, great person, and you know, I wouldn't want
to play for anybody else. Then our oat line added
some guys tearing tyle. Then we just got uh yeah,
we got a couple other guys. I think they'll get
here in the summer. Then defensively, you know, have a
bunch of new edge rushers who will help us because

(02:16):
with the scheme we run, you know, it's typically three
down front and you gotta have some some guys coming
off the edge.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, and uh, that will.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Help Dante as well, so he's not getting double triple
teamed as well, So that would be great to see.
And then uh, you know, revamped a defensive back room
as well. I'm super excited about it.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
You talk about Brendan Soresby and Scott Sadderfield and I
were talking about this before. It's what is sort of
a unique luxury in this day and age of college football,
which is continuity with the same quarterback. Yeah, same quarterback
and same go to a tight end. I would imagine
you have you both have to be really excited about that.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, So with the way college football is nowadays, like
you said, you know, it's unfortunately it's kind of rare
to you know, play with the same guys so yeah,
I'm blessed out. Uh, Brendan and I get to play together,
you know, same coaching staff as well for the most part,
and I just think, you know, we'll take another step
this season and can only get better.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
When when the season ended the way it did last year,
it sets itself up for a longer off season because
you're not preparing for a bowl game, and then you
know that taste in your mouth, It just it takes
forever to go away. I would imagine you guys who
were here last year are chomping at the bit to
get going, and yet we're still three and a half
months away from Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, it's been it's been a long time.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
I felt that way during winter workouts, I'm like, man,
I can't wait until we get the spring ball so
we can actually play football again. And then, you know,
summer's honestly the longest part of the off season, just
running and lifting every day. But I can't wait for camp,
get out the higher ground again and uh yeah, just
get the season going.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
What things do you think you'll be able to do
offensively that maybe you couldn't do last year? Uh?

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I think from a receiving standpoint, you know, with some
of the guys we brought in. It was hard towards
the end of the season last year. I felt like
I was getting bracketed a lot. You know, there'd be
a guy up on me and a guy over top,
so it was hard for me to you know, get
open and get touches, and you know, had a receiver
room was pretty banged up as well. So with some
of these guys, that will make my job easier and

(04:10):
their job. You know, if you want to double cover someone,
we'll just throw.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
It to that guy.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Then if you know that guy's going off or whatever
and you want to double cover him, we'll just throw
it over here, and that will make Brendon's job easier
as well. So collectively, just receiving I think will look
totally different. I'm super excited about it. And then from
a running game aspect, we got Ta Whee. You know,
he's kind of a Cory Kinner guy, powerful downhill guy.
And then we have Evan Pryor coming out of the backfield.

(04:35):
You know, you can really do whatever with him. He's
more of like a scot Back thrown stuff out in
the flat check down and you know he's got a
great chance to score every time he.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Touched Well, it feels like you guys will be more
difficult to prepare for. I agree, I would think Sony,
you bring in the tight end room one of your
former college teammates at Ohio State.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, Patrick Patrick gurd I lived with him for a
year when I was up there, and you know, he's
one of my best friends, so excited to have him
down here. He'll he'll compliment me and this offense. Well
when we go twelve personnel, you know, he can do
Y n H stuff on and off the ball, so
he'll be a great addition for us.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
I asked you this for part of one of the
pregame shows last year. When you're a tight end at
a place that has become known as tight end, you
that's pretty special.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
You know, there's a long list of great tight ends
that we've had come through here, and you know, I'm
just glad to be a part of it.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
You decided to come back for one more season, that
you see, because you wanted to improve your draft stock.
Now we're a ways away from that, but did you
did you pay attention to the process a little bit
more closely this year with some of your former teammates
and just saw what they went through as they get ready.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
For the draft.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, I was definitely this was definitely the most kind
of locked in I've been on, you know the process
of everything, and then the draft itself. You know, guys
are out in California or at Florida wherever, training for
a couple months, and they go off to the Combine,
do all the interviews, and they had their pro day,
more interviews and workouts, and then obviously the draft's kind
of the last thing. Then they report for Mini camp.

(06:00):
But yeah, just it's been helpful for sure, having a
bunch of friends, you know, I've been getting drafted, just
being able to talk with them so I can kind
of get a feel of, you know, what it might
look like.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
What if they tell you about the interviews with the
questions they get.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Uh so it's really obviously they'll ask you about football.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
You can see what you know about the game and
all of that.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
But you know, I was talking with John Williams, left
tackle here last year and he was I forget it
might have been Green Bay where he ended up, and
he was saying, you know, they're just asking who knows
like anything, A bunch of crazy questions is really kind
of see how you responding answers.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Have nothing to do with fun, No nothing.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Had I prepared, we could have done an interview like that.
I just asked you a bunch of crazy stuff.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, and uh some of the things, Yeah, I probably
couldn't say on area.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
It was wild. Have you I mean, you came back
because you wanted to improve your draft stock. Have you
gotten feedback, Hey, here are the things we need to
see from you in your final season of college football
as you prepare for the National Football League.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, I think the biggest thing for me is blocking.
I would say, you know, they want to see me
finish guys, you know, stay on blocks longer, finish plays.
And then from a receiving standpoint, you know, they just
went to trust that I can win and man, when
it's you know, a dB on me, and then if
they put a backer, a bigger guy on me, you
know I can still win and get open and then.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Just be because I agree.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
You know, at times, it was honestly my first year
really playing college football that many snaps covered with everything
that happened in my career at leading up to that point.
So there was times where you know, I was still
a little hesitant and you know, maybe not as confident
as you need to be. So I think, have another year,
we'll definitely help and you know, I'll just be playing
more fluent and you know, not really thinking as well.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Now you're getting ready for one more year of college football.
We're months away from fall camp. You have off season workouts,
but like, what how much downtime do you get?

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah? Right now?

Speaker 2 (07:48):
So our last spring practice was I want to say,
the twentieth Maybee, yeah, of April, and you know that
following week we had just lifting through Thursday, and then
ever since then, we're just kind of been off. You know,
if you got in person exams or stuff, you obviously
got to stick around for that. But luckily I didn't,

(08:09):
and I was all online. So uh, yeah, I went
to Florida like the twenty fifth to like May second
or something, so I was there for a little while.
Then I've just been up here hanging out and coming
work out in the morning. And honestly, yeah, I was
talking to you a little bit about it before we
were on air. I really don't do too well when
we got all this time off. You know, I'm used

(08:29):
to constantly doing something, so just trying to stay busy.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Really yeah, uh the experience thrown at the first.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Pitch, Yeah, that was awesome.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
I feel like that's damn near any Cincinnati pee. Yeah,
it was funny. So before I went, Brendan Soresby and
I we live at the same apartment complex. We're just
standing in the grass outside, just you know, thrown. It's
been I used to play baseball. I was pretty good
at it, but it's been a while since I threw it.
And obviously it doesn't really matter how good you are
when you get up there. Right, man, it looked like

(08:58):
I was Dante. It looked like he was a thousand
yards away. So it just wanted to putt a good ball.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
So you're out there on the grass playing catch. Are
the neighbors like what are you guys doing?

Speaker 2 (09:07):
A couple of people like walked out and they're like,
you know, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (09:11):
What's the deal here?

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Because Brendan and I are just tossing. We don't have
Brendan had a glove but I didn't, so we're just tossing.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Just catching on me.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
You don't have a baseball club.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
I do, Okay, not at my apartment, Okay, so I'm
just catching them base or bare handed.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
People are looking at us.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Like that looked like it was pretty cool. That looked
like a thrill.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, what are these two dudes doing? Well?

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Throwing at the first pitch was awesome. I cannot wait
for this fall. Whenever people talk about the upcoming season,
they mentioned two names, and you mentioned one of them.
Dante and Joe Royer both coming back. Uh. And you
guys are the foundation around which this team is built.
So I can't wait to see what you guys have
in store coming up in twenty twenty five. I can't
thank you enough for doing this.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah, thank you, thanks for having me on.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Joe Royer, the Pride of Elder High School. Tight End,
University of Cincinnati here, tight End you. It's fourteen after
four o'clock. We're broadcasting from a UC today part of
five to one three day. We'll spend some time with
the guys at Bearcat Journal. Next on ESPN fifteen thirty,
Cincinnati Sports Station

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