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CB Bradley Roby (2x All B1G)

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DaddyBigBucks;1972266; said:
Ohio State has been so spoiled with cornerbacks that we seem to believe that all of their corners are worthy of the appellation "lockdown".

To me; Shawn Springs and Antoine Winfield were lockdown corners. Very few since have deserved that title.
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Man, the Cooper scars run deep for me. Despite how great Springs and Winfield were, my spontaneous association with these names are "the slip" against UM and Plaxico Burress. Those who have experienced only the Tressel era may not appreciate just how great it was.
 
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Shawn Springs is the closest thing OSU has seen in my lifetime to a lockdown corner

William White, Clements, Winfield, Gamble, Jenkins, Chekwa......great college corners. But Springs was in a class by himself at OSU.

I think Clarke, Roby, and Howard are as good of a crop of young CBs as OSU has had since the late '90s

DiamondBuck;1972474; said:
Man, the Cooper scars run deep for me. Despite how great Springs and Winfield were, my spontaneous association with these names are "the slip" against UM and Plaxico Burress. Those who have experienced only the Tressel era may not appreciate just how great it was.
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DaveyBoy;1972478; said:
Shawn Springs is the closest thing OSU has seen in my lifetime to a lockdown corner

William White, Clements, Winfield, Gamble, Jenkins, Chekwa......great college corners. But Springs was in a class by himself at OSU.

I think Clarke, Roby, and Howard are as good of a crop of young CBs as OSU has had since the late '90s
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They also picked up a good one in Doran Grant.
 
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DaveyBoy;1972478; said:
Shawn Springs is the closest thing OSU has seen in my lifetime to a lockdown corner

William White, Clements, Winfield, Gamble, Jenkins, Chekwa......great college corners. But Springs was in a class by himself at OSU.

I think Clarke, Roby, and Howard are as good of a crop of young CBs as OSU has had since the late '90s
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William White played safety
 
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Ohio State's depth chart for Akron opener rewards redshirt freshman Bradley Roby at cornerback
Published: Monday, August 29, 2011,
By Doug Lesmerises, The Plain Dealer

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know they're going to come after the young players," says Ohio State cornerback Bradley Roby, a redshirt freshman, "so I'm going to be ready for it."

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- With the release of the first depth chart of the season on Monday, it became official. Redshirt freshman cornerback Bradley Roby was the biggest winner of Ohio State's preseason camp.

Beating out sophomore Dominic Clarke for a starting job, Roby was the one Buckeye who wasn't a starter at the beginning of August and will be one when Ohio State hosts Akron on Saturday. And he seems to have solidified what may be the biggest question mark on the defense.

"It's funny because when I first decided to come here I planned on redshirting and then that next year I told myself that I was going to start," Roby said late in camp. "It feels good that I fulfilled a promise to myself."

Roby attended Peachtree Ridge High School in Suwanee, Ga., the same school that sent defensive lineman Cameron Heyward to Ohio State. Heyward's mother and Roby's mother were friends, and that relationship encouraged his interest, but he became a Buckeye only after changing his mind on an original commitment to Vanderbilt.

Now he joins junior Travis Howard at the front of a cornerback pack that includes Clarke and true freshman Doran Grant on the second team, with senior Florida State transfer Dionte Allen providing depth.

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http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2011/08/ohio_states_depth_chart_for_ak.html
 
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This first time I saw Bradley Roby play, I thought he was a Senior who was finally getting his shot to prove something. I found out he was a Freshman by reading the Observations from A-Deck thread. I guess that makes my similar assumption high praise in retrospect, doesn't it?

I think he's the next great CB at Ohio State University. Of course, Travis Howard is pretty fantastic too. It's good to have an abundance of talented players I suppose.
 
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