Dallas Gant came to Ohio State from Toledo where he attended St. John’s High School. He was a four-year varsity starter on his football team. Gant was ranked the No. 10 outside linebacker in the nation and the No. 166 player overall. An Army All-American, he signed with Ohio State over offers from Michigan, Oklahoma…
Coaches love bowl games because it rewards their players for a season of effort and hard work (and also usually triggers a salary bonus.) It also gives coaches a chance to get a good, long look at the up-and-coming players on the roster. With a month of practices between games, there is no reason to overload the veterans…
We have now come to the conclusion of our redshirt forecast. The first part of the forecast spoke of the Ohio State football freshmen who were most likely to redshirt. The second part spoke of those freshmen who were more likely to play than redshirt. Today’s conclusion focuses on those freshmen who have been talked…
According to Ohio State’s Instagram page, Toledo freshman linebacker Dallas Gant has become the second Buckeye freshman to have his black stripe removed. Gant joins Idaho defensive tackle Tommy Togiai, who lost his black stripe back in the spring. During the spring, any OSU coach who was asked about Gant…
Ohio State will have three freshman linebackers on the roster this season and expectations are high for each of them. Teradja Mitchell, Dallas Gant, and K’Vaughan Pope were all blue-chip recruits last year. Mitchell was the No. 2 inside linebacker. Pope was the No. 9 inside linebacker. And Gant was the No. 10 outside linebacker.
Ohio State has three freshman linebackers on the roster this season, and with the new redshirt rules announced on Wednesday, you should expect to see each of them on the field this year. One of those linebackers, however, has had a head start on the other two. Dallas Gant enrolled in January and took part in spring practice.
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.
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.
Ohio State’s linebackers did seem to play better later in the season. That was after Chris Worley was moved back to his more natural outside linebacker spot while Tuf Borland took over the middle linebacker role. Now, the three linebackers who finished the 2017 season are not around, with Worley and Jerome Baker off to…
Antwuan Jackson was one of the top defensive tackle prospects in the 2016 recruiting class. The Buckeyes wanted him badly, but ultimately Jackson signed with Auburn instead of Ohio State. Pretty early on, however, he realized he had made a mistake. After his redshirt freshman season, he transferred to Blinn College…
