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2021 Spring Practices, Game, and Tidbits

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If you are looking for some good news, you got it on Friday. Ohio State has lifted its pause to team-related football activites three days early, OSU has confirmed to Bucknuts. Initially, the Buckeyes were going to pause for one week beginning last Tuesday (March 9) due to an increased level of positive COVID-19 tests within the program. This news was first reported by Bill Rabinowitz of the Columbus Dispatch on Twitter.

An Ohio State spokesperson told Bucknuts the following via text message regarding the situation:

"We did allow players who’ve tested negative multiple times this week to return to small group workouts and individual workouts at the Woody today," the spokesperson said.

Ohio State is scheduled to begin spring practice on March 19. The spring game is scheduled for April 19.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
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Since they made the climb and lived to tell about it; I'll just guess this one:



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  • Asked about Lathan Ransom's role in the defense, Coombs says that Ransom is "going to play in that cover safety spot, the guy in the slot where he played last year on third down and stuff like that ... and he will play some other roles for us back there."
  • Coombs believes Zach Harrison is set for a huge season: "He's been very impressive with his leadership. He's excited to play, and I'm excited to see him this season."
  • The way that Alabama's dominant offense handled Ohio State's defense in the national championship game was "incredibly painful," Coombs says: "The journey that our kids were on to get to that game was phenomenal ... And I feel very responsible that we didn't play our very best in that environment. That's on me. That's my job.”
  • Coombs was not willing to dish out any answers about how the Buckeyes' defensive schemes and philosophies may change as a result of that loss to Alabama.
  • Only having three spring practices last season and not being able to install the new defensive schemes and have "direct teaching" hurt the Buckeyes' growth on that side of the ball "significantly," Coombs says. "For me, being able to look them in the eye and see them do it on the field, that's what I miss. ... Being able to have that this spring makes a significant difference. ... For us to have this opportunity to install what we wanna install is significantly important."
  • Man-to-man defense "is our fastball. That's what we've gotta be able to do. ... Everything else bleeds off of that."
  • Josh Proctor lined up as the free safety at the Buckeyes' first practice and "played really well." Proctor, Bryson Shaw (second-team reps) and Jantzen Dunn (third team) are the players that Coombs mentioned who have played that spot early on.
 
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Kyle McCord, who departs from one of the elite high schools in preparing it’s student athletes physically and mentally for the next level, St. Joseph’s Prep, shows off No. 14 in Spring practice No. 1. McCord has the opportunity to take the first snaps under center come September 2nd and he arrived in January with expectations for himself to do so.



n honor of his grandfather, Albert “Airplane” Lee, TreVeyon Henderson enters his first season as an Ohio State Buckeye wearing No. 32, the same number Lee wore during his time at Hopewell high school. Henderson has only been on campus for approximately 2 months but already looks the part of a college football tailback.


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This is the largest group of freshmen on a spring roster yet at Ohio State. Along with their numbers, here are the heights and weights of the incoming freshmen, per the program:
  • ★★★★ Jayden Ballard: 6-foot, 192-pound wide receiver
  • ★★★★ Denzel Burke: 6-foot, 192-pound cornerback
  • ★★★★ Reid Carrico: 6-foot-2, 228-pound linebacker
  • ★★★★ Ben Christman: 6-foot-6, 312-pound offensive lineman
  • ★★★★ Dunn: 6-foot-1, 188-pound safety
  • ★★★★★ Emeka Egbuka: 6-foot-1, 203-pound wide receiver
  • ★★★★ Marvin Harrison Jr.: 6-foot-3, 202-pound wide receiver
  • ★★★ Sam Hart: 6-foot-5, 240-pound tight end
  • ★★★★★ Henderson: 5-foot-10, 210-pound running back
  • ★★★★★ Kyle McCord: 6-foot-3, 210-pound quarterback
  • ★★★★ Zen Michalski: 6-foot-9, 295-pound offensive lineman
  • ★★★ Jesse Mirco: 6-foot-4, 210-pound punter
  • ★★★★ Evan Pryor: 5-foot-10, 197-pound running back
  • ★★★★★ Jack Sawyer: 6-foot-4, 240-pound defensive end
  • ★★★★ Williams: 6-foot-3, 330-pound defensive tackle
8D...Just the early arrivals make up quite an impressive recruiting class... 8D
 
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