After a day off on Sunday, the Ohio State football team was back on the practice field on Monday. Following practice, freshman cornerback Tyreke Johnson became the 15th Buckeye and the 10th freshman to have his black stripe removed. With the removal of the stripe, Johnson is now viewed as an official Buckeye.
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…
Every position on the Ohio State team comes with expectations, but of late, maybe no position can match the cornerbacks when it comes to what people expect of them. With the long line of NFL production — which has seen an uptick of late — not only do outsiders expect big things, but so do the players themselves.
Ohio State returns two starting cornerbacks from last season in Kendall Sheffield and Damon Arnette, which is (technically) as many or more than anybody else in the nation. The Buckeyes were without one of their top three cornerbacks this spring in sophomore Jeff Okudah, which allowed fellow second-year players…
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.
Later this month, Denzel Ward will be selected in the first round of the NFL Draft. When that happens, he will become the fifth Ohio State cornerback selected in the first round in the last five years. Some would call this a habit, but habit doesn’t give the players or coaches enough credit for what they have created.
Robert Lawrence Stine, better known in literary circles as R.L. Stine, is a native Ohioan from Columbus, and a proud graduate of The Ohio State University. While Stine is a novelist with a focus on children’s literature, one might apply the quote above as we move onto the next position group to review, the 2018 Ohio State defensive backs.
Every single college football program sells themselves as best as they can to prospective recruits. Yes, facilities are nice, and on-field success is definitely important, but there are gilded palaces being built every day around the country. When it comes to ultimately deciding on a school, the shiny will eventually dull and…
When Ohio State signed cornerback Shaun Wade a year ago, little did they know they had also locked freshman Tyreke Johnson into doing the same. No, there was no arm twisting, only the fulfillment of a promise that Johnson made to Wade when they were younger that they would end up playing college football together.
Sometimes when Ohio State goes out of state to recruit a talented player, that player will have some previous connection with Ohio State. Perhaps they have family that attended OSU, or they grew up as a fan, or moved away from Ohio when they were younger. For freshman cornerback Sevyn Banks, however, there…
New Ohio State cornerbacks coach Taver Johnson is back with the Buckeyes after a six-year hiatus, and while OSU is not new to him, plenty has changed since he’s been gone. Names, faces, defensive coordinators, they have all changed since Johnson left for Arkansas in January of 2012. What has continued, however, is…
