In college football, players must emerge every spring in order to replace departed teammates. For Ohio State, this generally works out, thanks to tireless recruiting, but it’s not foolproof. There have certainly been times when the Buckeyes have left the spring with coaches still wondering who who was going to fill out their…
Ryan Day hired Mike Yurcich back in early January to coach the quarterbacks and coordinate the passing game for the Buckeyes. He has been on the job for two months now, and beginning on Wednesday he’ll actually finally get to start doing some on-the-field coaching. The off-field coaching, however, has been ongoing as coaches…
Matthew Baldwin came to Ohio State from football powerhouse Lake Travis High School in Austin, Texas. Baldwin was a 4-star prospect and ranked the No. 12 pro-style quarterback in the nation and the No. 331 player in the 2019 class overall. He only started as a senior and was previously committed to Colorado State…
Every year, college football teams sign recruiting classes full of players who are viewed as reinforcements and positive additions to that year’s team. This is an accurate assessment, but what is often overlooked for each team is the number of redshirt freshmen who will actually be contributing while the true freshmen are…
Welcome to the first foray into our annual look at the candidates who will be competing to replace Ohio State’s departed starters. Today we start where everything starts in sports — at quarterback. Replacing Dwayne Haskins won’t be difficult because it’s going to happen regardless, but living up to the standard that…
When it comes to throwing the ball, nobody has ever done it better at Ohio State than Dwayne Haskins. Sure, Haskins threw the ball more than any other Buckeye quarterback before him. He had 150 more attempts than the previous record holder. In fact, Haskins’ 373 completions this past season were just 11 completions short…
Well before quarterback Dwayne Haskins bypassed his final two seasons of eligibility at Ohio State, the process of replacing him had begun. And then all hell broke loose. Justin Fields transferred in, Tate Martell transferred out, and freshman Matthew Baldwin was there to watch it all happen. Fields is arguably the most-highly-touted…
The 2018 Ohio State passing offense was unlike any other we saw before it. Together, quarterbacks Dwayne Haskins and Tate Martell threw for 5,100 yards and 51 touchdowns. And they completed 70.6% of their passes along the way. Haskins was obviously the bulk of those numbers, throwing for 4,831 yards and 50 touchdowns.
There are plenty of questions about the 2019 Ohio State Buckeye position groups, with some more difficult to answer than others. Because it’s the largest group on the field, you can usually find plenty of questions about the offensive line. But I like the group that the Buckeyes are going to put on the field in 2019, and I…
The Ohio State quarterback room looks very different than it did just one month ago. There’s one new coach in, one transfer in, and three current quarterbacks plus one commit out – all in the span of one month.
If there is a day without competition for an Ohio State Buckeye, it’s because they didn’t have to come to the football facilities that day. Other than that, competition rages between those walls wherever players gather. The most prominent in-team competition in football is almost always the quarterback position, and the…
