Today is the final day for college football’s underclassmen to declare for the NFL, and as long as nothing changes, the same group of Buckeye receivers who practiced during bowl prep will also be practicing during spring camp. In other words, the entire band is back together and they’re currently in the studio working on a new album for this fall.
Everybody knows what a ‘bend-but-don’t-break defense’ is, but what the Ohio State offense may see in the Cotton Bowl is a ‘break-but-don’t-bend defense’ when they take the field against USC. No team in the Pac 12 gave up more 20-yard receptions than USC’s 52 this season. That’s four per game. Only one team gave up…
One year ago, Ohio State’s wide receivers had just four receptions of 40 yards or more — and two of those came in the first game against an extremely overmatched Bowling Green team. Meaning, that they had just two more such plays over their final 12 games, which is just a terrible, terrible number. Further, the Buckeyes…
It might seem like a long time ago to some, but if you’ll think back to this past September, the early season was pocked with dropped passes by Buckeye receivers. Not a lot, mind you. Just a few that were pretty noticeable in big-time moments. The talk from some at the time was that six starters at receiver were too many.
Kevin Wilson and Ryan Day were brought to Ohio State to fix a passing game that spent the past two years struggling at every turn. In the offseason, receivers coach Zach Smith told his players that the offense was going to fit them better than it ever had before. Being provided with a fifth-year starting quarterback and a batch of Urban Meyer…
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…
All throughout spring and fall camp, the Ohio State coaches and players talked about how good the deep passing game was looking. It may have taken longer to come to fruition than people wanted, but we finally saw a good bit of what they were talking about in Saturday night’s win over Rutgers. J.T. Barrett hit deep shots to…
The Ohio State wide receivers have been criticized for the better part of two years now for their overall lack of production. The 2015 team had Michael Thomas to lean on, and last year there was Curtis Samuel, but there was never really a Robin to their respective Batman. The 2017 season has started with similar criticisms…
If ‘X’ marks the spot, then people might want to start digging No. 9. Ohio State has been in search of a take-charge X receiver since Michael Thomas left for the NFL after the 2015 season. It looked early on like Noah Brown would be that guy last year, especially after catching five touchdown passes in his first three games.
Over the last couple of days, parents of Ohio State players have been tweeting out the good news that their son has been named a starter. Austin Mack’s mother tweeted on Friday that her son will be starting against Indiana. Sunday, Ohio State football’s Twitter account released this video of Johnnie Dixon’s mother being given…
Even though we are now just one week away from the Ohio State Buckeyes taking the field for the first time in 2017, it is difficult to move past 2016 just yet. Given the offensive struggles last season even though they weren’t exactly expected, it’s only natural to worry the same may be possible this year. One of the areas of…
