Ohio State must replace 49 career starts at the linebacker position this season. With two-year starters Jerome Baker and Chris Worley now gone, the Buckeyes not only went about replacing their production, but also their leadership. That process took a hit this spring when third-year sophomore middle linebacker…
There aren’t many 6-foot-4 240-pound linebackers who run in the 4.5s, so if you can find one, you better make it count. Ohio State signed one such linebacker in the 2017 recruiting class in Baron Browning, out of Fort Worth, Texas. Browning played in 12 games as a true freshman last season for the Buckeyes, picking…
Spring football this year for the Ohio State linebackers began with seven players trying to prove they belonged. Tuf Borland was the sure thing at middle linebacker, but an injury to his Achilles tendon knocked him out of action until around September. Justin Hilliard and Baron Browning then stepped in for him and…
The Ohio State linebackers left spring ball without any starters being named, other than the injured Tuf Borland, who won’t even be practicing until around September due to an Achilles tendon injury. Based on who was healthy and who is more experienced, we can still take a pretty educated guess at where things ended up.
It may be a completely different topic, but the title of the documentary could be applied to the pending decision by Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer and his coaching staff on who will be the starting quarterback for the 2018 season. More on that momentarily. Throughout the spring practices, I ranked position…
Normally, when a football team loses its only returning starter at linebacker to injury, the tension tightens and coaches begin to lose what little sleep they regularly subsist on. Thanks to the depth of the Ohio State linebackers, however, the Buckeye football coaches are more excited than worried about the possibilities.
Now that we know the Ohio State spring game is officially going to happen on Saturday, it’s time to talk about what we’re looking forward to seeing. We talked about it for a good hour on Accost the Field this week, but since not everybody is the listenin’ type, I thought I’d break a few of the areas down that I’ll be watching.
With starting middle linebacker Tuf Borland out until around September for the Buckeyes, sophomore Baron Browning and fourth-year junior Justin Hilliard have stepped in to replace him. The competition this spring is significant because it is very likely that one of them will be the starter when Ohio State opens the…
The Ohio State football team was 9-0 last season when Tuf Borland started, and 3-2 when he didn’t. That could just be coincidence, of course. Borland didn’t start at middle linebacker last year until the fourth game of the season. He was then replaced in the starting lineup for games against Penn State and Iowa…
Ohio State enters 2018 having to replace arguably its top two offensive players in center Billy Price and left tackle Jamarco Jones. Together, they made the Buckeye offensive line the most consistent aspect of the entire Ohio State football team. Senior right tackle Isaiah Prince has moved to left tackle to fill the…
Last week when Urban Meyer broke the news about starting middle linebacker Tuf Borland’s Achilles tendon injury, he did so without expressing any concern that Borland’s season could be in jeopardy. In fact, he said that he had been advised that Borland would still be able to play this year. On Monday, Meyer…
