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Any chance we go after RB Sampson James who just entered the portal?
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doubt it considering he liekly wont be immediately eligible
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Ohio State football spring practice offensive notes: Harry Miller, Paris Johnson fighting for starting spots; Garrett Wilson on the move
Ohio State football opened spring practice Monday with the first of 15 sessions that will culminate with the spring game on April 11. Here’s what happened on the offensive side of the ball, according to what we saw after watching the entire first practice and after talking to coach Ryan Day following practice.
• On the offensive line, Thayer Munford at left tackle, Josh Myers at center and Wyatt Davis at right guard are locked in as returning starters. At left guard and right tackle, the Buckeyes rotated two players through first-team reps.
At left guard, it was sophomore Harry Miller and redshirt sophomore Matthew Jones rotating. Fifth-year senior Gavin Cupp, who could also be in that fight, didn’t practice and was on the side with a walking boot on his right foot.
At right tackle, it was redshirt sophomore Nicholas Petit-Frere and true freshman Paris Johnson rotating.
When the team went first-team offense vs. first-team defense at the end of practice, it was Miller and Petit-Frere who ran with the ones. They way Day spoke of it, the Buckeyes are very interested in Miller, who was a backup a year ago, winning a starting job. As for right tackle, those are two five-star recruits, but Petit-Frere has a two-year edge in experience. Figure that to continue into August.
Beyond the rotations, the other second-teamers on the offensive line were sophomore Dawand Jones at left tackle, freshman Luke Wypler at center and redshirt freshman Ryan Jacoby at right guard.
• At running back, sophomore Marcus Crowley is out with an injury, so that meant only two scholarship running backs were practicing Monday: Master Teague with the first team and Steele Chambers with the second team.
• Fifth-year senior Demario McCall was playing in the slot exclusively on Monday, but Day spoke of being more committed to getting McCall involved in the offense this season. A year ago at this time, McCall was the No. 2 running back in the spring, so Day said McCall knows that position, and he could always go back there. The slot spot will be crowded, but it seems like McCall should be encouraged.
• Justin Fields was of course the first-team quarterback, while fifth-year senior Gunnar Hoak and true freshmen C.J. Stroud and Jack Miller worked behind him. Day said the backups will share second-team reps, for now, as practice progresses.
• Oh, the receivers. One of the fascinations of this season is how the Buckeyes will get this wide variety of young receiver talent on the field. One big move Monday was sophomore Garrett Wilson in the slot. He worked with the first-team there much of the day, with veterans Jalyn Harris and Ellijah Gardiner on the outside. That was probably a day one nod to the veterans for Harris and Gardiner. Also, junior Chris Olave, the leading returning receiver, was limited with an injury.
But that also allowed sophomore Jameson Williams and freshmen Julian Fleming and Gee Scott to get a lot of run at outside receiver. In the slot, it was crowded, with McCall and true freshmen Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Mookie Cooper following Wilson. That’s four legit slot guys -- and redshirt sophomore Jaelen Gill was on the side and not practicing because of injury. Plus, veteran C.J. Saunders continues to wait on news from the NCAA as to whether he’ll be granted a sixth year of eligibility.
The Buckeyes can’t play six slot receivers. They probably can’t play more than two.
But Wilson in the slot opens up the idea of Olave, Fleming, Williams and Scott as the top four outside receivers, and Wilson and someone else as the top two slot receivers.
Entire article: https://www.cleveland.com/osu/2020/...tarting-spots-garrett-wilson-on-the-move.html
Ohio State spring football practice: How did Justin Fields and the quarterbacks look on Day One?
The Ohio State football team took the field for the first time Monday in preparation for the 2020 season with its first spring football practice
While there are plenty of position groups that will need to fill the void left by impact players from 2019, the Buckeyes have no questions about who their starting quarterback will be. Justin Fields returns for his second season as a starter with the more pressing issue being how coach Ryan Day will choose Fields’ backup.
Ohio State’s 2020 recruiting class features two four-star quarterbacks who will spend the year developing behind Fields in what will be a year-long competition, likely ending with either Jack Miller or C.J. Stroud as the starting quarterback in 2021.
Here is how the group looked on Day One as Ohio State quarterbacks:
Justin Fields
Fields did not have on a knee brace like he did the final three games of last season. By the way he was moving around in practice, his knee isn’t an issue anymore. He did, however, have a wrap around his left thumb, but since that isn’t his throwing hand, it didn’t prevent him from doing any drills.
Fields is the starter, which means he gets all the reps he wants, and he took advantage of that in the first practice. He’d often take two or three plays before stepping aside, especially when he wasn’t particularly happy with his throw. He did throw three interceptions during live play: two to Sevyn Banks and another by Marcus Hooker. Both looked like they were the result of the defensive back making a play than Fields making the wrong decision.
CJ Stroud and Jack Miller
Gunnar Hoak will join Miller and Stroud in the QB room, and the three equally split reps in a similar way to how Fields did with Matthew Baldwin last spring, except without the pressure of knowing one of them is going to start come fall.
They each took snaps with the second- and third-string units and had some excellent moments, and some moments that show by the two are still true freshmen.
It will be interesting to watch how Stroud goes through a physical transformation over the next 12 months. Right now, he looks like the little brother of Fields from a physical standpoint, especially when the two stand next to each other. He also threw an interception to fellow true freshman Ryan Watts, leading to a lap around the field. Stroud did close out practice with a touchdown pass to Demario McCall in the final period in a tempo drill.
Miller didn’t throw an interception, but he fumbled handoff between him and Xavier Johnson, leading to the two taking a lap around the field. His best moment came on a throw to Jaxon Smith-Njigba, a play that was was one of the many highlights the freshman receiver made on Day One.
Ryan Day and Corey Dennis
Last spring Day admitted that it would be an adjustment making his way around practice and not being tempted to spend the entire time around the quarterbacks. With this being Dennis’ first job as a position coach, one would think that Day would have that same problem in 2020, but he didn’t spend too much time around that group. He still did his due diligence, especially in one-on-one periods, but during most quarterback drill work, he left it up to Dennis and the quality control guys.
Entire article: https://www.cleveland.com/osu/2020/...lds-and-the-quarterbacks-look-on-day-one.html
Ohio State football opened spring practice Monday with the first of 15 sessions that will culminate with the spring game on April 11. Here’s what happened on the offensive side of the ball, according to what we saw after watching the entire first practice and after talking to coach Ryan Day following practice.
• On the offensive line, Thayer Munford at left tackle, Josh Myers at center and Wyatt Davis at right guard are locked in as returning starters. At left guard and right tackle, the Buckeyes rotated two players through first-team reps.
At left guard, it was sophomore Harry Miller and redshirt sophomore Matthew Jones rotating. Fifth-year senior Gavin Cupp, who could also be in that fight, didn’t practice and was on the side with a walking boot on his right foot.
At right tackle, it was redshirt sophomore Nicholas Petit-Frere and true freshman Paris Johnson rotating.
When the team went first-team offense vs. first-team defense at the end of practice, it was Miller and Petit-Frere who ran with the ones. They way Day spoke of it, the Buckeyes are very interested in Miller, who was a backup a year ago, winning a starting job. As for right tackle, those are two five-star recruits, but Petit-Frere has a two-year edge in experience. Figure that to continue into August.
Beyond the rotations, the other second-teamers on the offensive line were sophomore Dawand Jones at left tackle, freshman Luke Wypler at center and redshirt freshman Ryan Jacoby at right guard.
• At running back, sophomore Marcus Crowley is out with an injury, so that meant only two scholarship running backs were practicing Monday: Master Teague with the first team and Steele Chambers with the second team.
• Fifth-year senior Demario McCall was playing in the slot exclusively on Monday, but Day spoke of being more committed to getting McCall involved in the offense this season. A year ago at this time, McCall was the No. 2 running back in the spring, so Day said McCall knows that position, and he could always go back there. The slot spot will be crowded, but it seems like McCall should be encouraged.
• Justin Fields was of course the first-team quarterback, while fifth-year senior Gunnar Hoak and true freshmen C.J. Stroud and Jack Miller worked behind him. Day said the backups will share second-team reps, for now, as practice progresses.
• Oh, the receivers. One of the fascinations of this season is how the Buckeyes will get this wide variety of young receiver talent on the field. One big move Monday was sophomore Garrett Wilson in the slot. He worked with the first-team there much of the day, with veterans Jalyn Harris and Ellijah Gardiner on the outside. That was probably a day one nod to the veterans for Harris and Gardiner. Also, junior Chris Olave, the leading returning receiver, was limited with an injury.
But that also allowed sophomore Jameson Williams and freshmen Julian Fleming and Gee Scott to get a lot of run at outside receiver. In the slot, it was crowded, with McCall and true freshmen Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Mookie Cooper following Wilson. That’s four legit slot guys -- and redshirt sophomore Jaelen Gill was on the side and not practicing because of injury. Plus, veteran C.J. Saunders continues to wait on news from the NCAA as to whether he’ll be granted a sixth year of eligibility.
The Buckeyes can’t play six slot receivers. They probably can’t play more than two.
But Wilson in the slot opens up the idea of Olave, Fleming, Williams and Scott as the top four outside receivers, and Wilson and someone else as the top two slot receivers.
Entire article: https://www.cleveland.com/osu/2020/...tarting-spots-garrett-wilson-on-the-move.html
Ohio State spring football practice: How did Justin Fields and the quarterbacks look on Day One?
The Ohio State football team took the field for the first time Monday in preparation for the 2020 season with its first spring football practice
While there are plenty of position groups that will need to fill the void left by impact players from 2019, the Buckeyes have no questions about who their starting quarterback will be. Justin Fields returns for his second season as a starter with the more pressing issue being how coach Ryan Day will choose Fields’ backup.
Ohio State’s 2020 recruiting class features two four-star quarterbacks who will spend the year developing behind Fields in what will be a year-long competition, likely ending with either Jack Miller or C.J. Stroud as the starting quarterback in 2021.
Here is how the group looked on Day One as Ohio State quarterbacks:
Justin Fields
Fields did not have on a knee brace like he did the final three games of last season. By the way he was moving around in practice, his knee isn’t an issue anymore. He did, however, have a wrap around his left thumb, but since that isn’t his throwing hand, it didn’t prevent him from doing any drills.
Fields is the starter, which means he gets all the reps he wants, and he took advantage of that in the first practice. He’d often take two or three plays before stepping aside, especially when he wasn’t particularly happy with his throw. He did throw three interceptions during live play: two to Sevyn Banks and another by Marcus Hooker. Both looked like they were the result of the defensive back making a play than Fields making the wrong decision.
CJ Stroud and Jack Miller
Gunnar Hoak will join Miller and Stroud in the QB room, and the three equally split reps in a similar way to how Fields did with Matthew Baldwin last spring, except without the pressure of knowing one of them is going to start come fall.
They each took snaps with the second- and third-string units and had some excellent moments, and some moments that show by the two are still true freshmen.
It will be interesting to watch how Stroud goes through a physical transformation over the next 12 months. Right now, he looks like the little brother of Fields from a physical standpoint, especially when the two stand next to each other. He also threw an interception to fellow true freshman Ryan Watts, leading to a lap around the field. Stroud did close out practice with a touchdown pass to Demario McCall in the final period in a tempo drill.
Miller didn’t throw an interception, but he fumbled handoff between him and Xavier Johnson, leading to the two taking a lap around the field. His best moment came on a throw to Jaxon Smith-Njigba, a play that was was one of the many highlights the freshman receiver made on Day One.
Ryan Day and Corey Dennis
Last spring Day admitted that it would be an adjustment making his way around practice and not being tempted to spend the entire time around the quarterbacks. With this being Dennis’ first job as a position coach, one would think that Day would have that same problem in 2020, but he didn’t spend too much time around that group. He still did his due diligence, especially in one-on-one periods, but during most quarterback drill work, he left it up to Dennis and the quality control guys.
Entire article: https://www.cleveland.com/osu/2020/...lds-and-the-quarterbacks-look-on-day-one.html
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RB by committee and quick throws that are substitutes for runs. The creative minds of Ryan Day and Wilson will be on display. Hell who knows maybe the TE will get some looks
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