Alex Williams, who spent the past two seasons as a reserve defensive end for the Buckeyes, will continue his college career at Vanderbilt. Williams announced on Instagram that he would transfer to play for the Commodores.
It’s not often a team can say goodbye to Nick Bosa and still feel pretty good about their defensive ends. That’s Ohio State’s situation, and it was made easier by the fact that Bosa was gone from game three on last year, which forced everybody to grow up a bit more quickly. Now, every defensive end who played from Game Four…
Ohio State signed seven defensive linemen in the 2018 recruiting class. Four defensive ends and three defensive tackles. Four of the seven — ends Tyreke Smith and Tyler Friday and tackles Tommy Togiai and Taron Vincent — played decent minutes as freshmen last year. Ends Javontae Jean-Baptiste and Alex Williams redshirted, while tackle…
Alex Williams came to Ohio State from nearby Pickerington North High School. He was ranked the No. 34 weakside defensive end in the 2018 recruiting class and the No. 615 player overall. Williams was also ranked the No. 26 player in the state of Ohio. He signed with the Buckeyes over offers from West Virginia, Iowa State…
Freshman quarterback Matthew Baldwin and freshman defensive end Alex Williams are officially Buckeyes as both had their Black Stripes removed following practice early Wednesday evening. Both players have dealt with injuries this year, which is part of the reason why their stripe removal is taking place so late in the season.
Earlier in the week we looked at which Buckeyes are most likely to redshirt this season. Now we delve into those freshmen who are more likely to see the field in more than just the four games allowed to anybody before losing a year of eligibility. The factors which make somebody more likely to play include whether or…
The Ohio State football team took the field Saturday at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center for their first full-squad scrimmage of the fall. Fall camp just started a week ago, but the start of the OSU football season is closer than you think. In fact, the Buckeyes will already be done with their first regular season game against Oregon State three weeks from right now…
Ohio State sent three defensive ends off to the NFL last month, and they’ll be sending at least one more there next year in Nick Bosa. As such, the Buckeyes hit the position hard in the 2018 recruiting cycle. Ohio State signed four defensive ends — Tyreke Smith, Tyler Friday, Javontae Jean-Baptiste, and Alex Williams — this past winter.
Six months ago, it was looking like Ohio State would be bringing in a defensive end haul for the ages. The Buckeyes were heavily involved with 5-star prospects Micah Parsons and Brenton Cox, as well as 4-star athletes Tyreke Smith and Jayson Oweh. Finding room for all four was possibly going to be a problem, but a problem…
