Ohio State lost a pair of talented underclassmen cornerbacks to the NFL after last season, which means that the process to replace them had to be sped up. The Buckeyes were able to bring in Kendall Sheffield from junior college to help out returning players Denzel Ward and Damon Arnette, but the rest of the unit has been outfitted…
It took all of 10 practices for Ohio State freshman defensive end Chase Young to lose his black stripe, signifying his official welcome to the OSU football team. On Wednesday, Young became the fourth member of the 2017 recruiting class to lose his stripe, joining redshirt sophomore cornerback Kendall Sheffield…
Ohio State defensive line coach Larry Johnson is a blessed man. Last season, he was the coach of four future NFL defensive ends, and all four of those players are back for 2017. It’s unusual to have that much talent at one position, and even more unusual to have them as a rotation two years in a row. A year ago…
It’s sad to me that there are only 30 things left to look forward to this Buckeye football season. This year of looking forward has just flown by. It wasn’t too long ago that the preseason looking forward magazines were just hitting the shelves. And now here we are with the looking forward season almost over. What a year…
Back in February, I gave you five (or so) predictions for Ohio State’s 2017 early enrollees, so I thought it would be a good idea to do the same for the rest of the freshmen now that they are all on campus. I’m going to use the same topics that I did in February. I could say it was for clarity’s sake, but in reality it’s…
While high school campers milled about on the practice field inside the WHAC on Friday, Ohio State’s incoming freshmen were all being put through a workout of their own. One of those freshmen was 5-star defensive end Chase Young. Young comes to OSU from Hyattsville, Maryland where he played at DeMatha Catholic High School.
