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LB Ryan Shazier (All B1G, All-American, 2017 Pro Bowl)

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Linebacker Ryan Shazier shares a special bond with his dad
The Rev. Vernon Shazier has offered both wise counsel and spiritual guidance to his son
By Tim May
The Columbus Dispatch Friday September 27, 2013

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    Shazier against the California Golden Bears

    Ryan Shazier was about to transition from middle school to high school, so his father, the Rev. Vernon Shazier, felt it was time for them to take a ride through the Florida countryside.

    “We got in my truck and drove for a couple of hours, and I told him everything he would pretty much encounter in high school, because I have lived life and I coached high-school football,” Vernon Shazier said. “And he did, he experienced it all, and he had to mature and deal with it.

    “I started emphasizing three things to him, and he has gravitated toward those principles. And that’s faith, integrity and discipline. Those are what we try to live by, and that’s what is tattooed on one of his arms. He has embraced the challenge, and it is a challenge, but he has tried to live by them.”

    As Ryan, a blue-chip linebacker prospect from Pompano Beach, Fla., prepped to enroll early at Ohio State in January 2011, he and his father again had a talk, this time in the comfort of their home.

    “I told him, ‘You are moving to a new phase of adulthood, our relationship is getting ready to transition, and so my role now will be to give you guidance and let you borrow wisdom, but that’s something you have to choose to do,’” Vernon said.

    Ryan opted in.

    “My dad has always been my light, and he has always been the guy to tell me what I should do, what I need to do better, what to watch for, things like that,” said Ryan, now a junior at OSU.

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Shazier finds strength in number
October, 16, 2013
By Austin Ward | ESPN.com

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Despite the exhaustion and the late hour after a hard-hitting, prime-time win, Ryan Shazier simply couldn’t get to sleep.

The Ohio State linebacker was tossing and turning, his mind racing and processing the loss of a teammate that had been a costly price of victory over Wisconsin.

Christian Bryant had only just been diagnosed with a fractured ankle and taken directly to the hospital for surgery, but Shazier was already racking his brain to come up with a way to honor the star safety and emotional leader for the fourth-ranked Buckeyes.


Chuck Rydlewski/Icon SMIRyan Shazier changed his number to honor teammate Christian Bryant, who broke his ankle against Wisconsin.
“I had a really tough time the night of the game, to be honest,” Shazier said. “I was just thinking, ‘Man, I want to do something.’

“It was just on my mind, so I texted the coaches.”

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