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CB Chimdi Chekwa (Official Thread)

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scarletngray;1303627; said:
Yep, we are going to need Jenkins, Washington and Chekwa to man up on Williams, Butler and Norwood from time to time. Should be an interesting matchup.

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Yea, Chimdi has impressed me this season. Last season, mainly during the Illinois game, I disliked him. It seemed like he got burned on every play. Kind of reminded me of Jacques Reeves for my cowboys..:roll2:. He has taken his game to the next step this year. That pick he had at USC was a thing of beauty! Way to go Chim!
 
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Dispatch

Ohio State notebook: Chekwa is feeling better
Cornerback's shoulder unlikely to keep him out
Friday, October 24, 2008 2:54 AM
By Ken Gordon


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Ohio State cornerback Chimdi Chekwa should be able to play Saturday, which is good news for a defense that needs all the help it can get against a powerful Penn State offense. Chekwa suffered a left shoulder injury in the third quarter last week at Michigan State and did not return. The sophomore has started all eight games this season and has an interception and four passes defensed.
"Chimdi is looking fine, and we're excited about that," coach Jim Tressel said. "Because honestly, (last) Saturday I wouldn't have said we would have him."
Ohio State's defense, ranked second in the Big Ten, will face the conference's second-ranked offense. Penn State comes in averaging 482 yards and 46 points, and that's not all a case of piling up statistics against weak nonconference foes.
In four Big Ten games, the Nittany Lions have averaged 426 yards and 38 points.
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Meet a Buckeye: CB Chimdi Chekwa

Saturday, November 1, 2008 3:06 AM
By Tim May


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Before there can be any give and take with Ohio State sophomore cornerback Chimdi Chekwa, it's nice to first learn to spell his entire last name. "It's O-n-w-u-c-h-e-k-w-a," he said. "My parents changed it to the shorter version because I guess people were struggling trying to say the whole name. But I still have to use the whole name for school because it's on my birth certificate." ...
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Question for the Football Experts on the Board

Convential Wisedom with some posters on this an other OSU boards is that Chekwa was picked on quite a bit Monday to the great benefit of Texas. It makes sense that McCoy would go after him more then MJ and I do remember him being in on alot of plays. My sense at the time he was playing pretty good defense (with the one exception being the one long play where Crosby got behind him) Most of the other times, it seemed to me, that he was in pretty good position but that McCoy and Texas just made some good throws or plays on the ball.

I was just curious what the resident experts here thought.
 
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sflbuck;1376284; said:
Question for the Football Experts on the Board

Convential Wisedom with some posters on this an other OSU boards is that Chekwa was picked on quite a bit Monday to the great benefit of Texas. It makes sense that McCoy would go after him more then MJ and I do remember him being in on alot of plays. My sense at the time he was playing pretty good defense (with the one exception being the one long play where Crosby got behind him) Most of the other times, it seemed to me, that he was in pretty good position but that McCoy and Texas just made some good throws or plays on the ball.

I was just curious what the resident experts here thought.
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I'm certainly no expert, but my impression was that he tackled very well, which isn't necessarily a good thing for a CB. Crosby wore him out. JMO. Don't forget how young Chekwa is, though. This season was a great experience for him, and he really took advantage of the space that D-Wash provided for him.
 
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They went after him A LOT.

He was about a step behind on most cases, which is easily compounded when facing a Heisman quarterback that is going to hit the mark 80% of the time. Very tough night for him, but he's shown he's got plenty of skill. Just a bad combination- step off most of the night and facing a great QB/WR tandem.

He won't face that kind of abuse again.
 
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Secondary Youth a bit of a Myth

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* Old face, New Position: Chimdi Chekwa is the lone returner at corner this year, but says he is actually at a new position.

"I'm going to be playing the boundary corner," Chekwa said.

"Last year I played the field corner. This year I'm moving to boundary. Travis and Andre and Devon, all those guys are rotating at the field corner."

Chekwa is looking forward to the change.

"The boundary corner is the short side of the field, the field is the big side. You typically want your more physical corner at the boundary because that's where teams like to run the ball, particularly in the Big Ten. They like to pound the ball into the boundary USC likes to pound the ball into the boundary too. You usually want your tougher and stronger cornerback playing the boundary.​

"I love coming up on the run. I was excited to play the boundary this year."​

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Men's Track: Footballers Chekwa, Thomas propel relay team to victory
Everdeen Mason
Issue date: 5/4/09

The Ohio State men's track team pulled out all the stops at the Jesse Owens Track Classic this weekend. Football players and Olympic trail competitors were unleashed on the competition.

The men's 4x100-meter relay finally reached the regional qualifying marks, winning with a time of 40.51 seconds.

The 4x100 was a "better race for me. I had everyone on the team counting on me," junior Stephen Robinson said.

The men received two additional runners in football players Chimdi Chekwa and Lamaar Thomas.

"They've only had five days to work with the team," coach Robert Gary said. "We didn't even know the line-up until yesterday."

The new team ran the second fastest time in the Big Ten.
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Men's Track: Footballers Chekwa, Thomas propel relay team to victory - Sports
 
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Ohio State football: The only corner back
Buckeyes need Chekwa to be like predecessors
Sunday, May 10, 2009
By Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Like a royal family's, the lineage of standout Ohio State cornerbacks stretches back through the years, a nearly unbroken chain of all-conference, All-America and NFL-ready talent.

With the departure of Malcolm Jenkins and Donald Washington, Chimdi Chekwa stands next in line. A fourth-year junior, he is the only returning cornerback with any significant experience, having played in 26 games, starting 13.

But he understands the scepter isn't something simply handed down. It must be earned.

"It's good to hear about the tradition here at Ohio State and all the great corners," Chekwa said. "But I still have to go out on the field and do it. So I'm still going to work hard to try to get where I want to be."

The Buckeyes urgently need him to step up into the role of a shutdown, No. 1 cover corner. Behind Chekwa, everyone is green.

That was the message that cornerbacks coach Taver Johnson constantly delivered throughout spring practice.

"With the game experience he's had the past two years, he's got to be a young man who puts more on his shoulders," Johnson said. "That's something he's been told."

As they prepared for the draft this spring, Jenkins and Washington told Chekwa the same thing.

"They basically said, 'It's your team now; time for you to step up and be the guy,' " Chekwa said.
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Football players get up to speed
Chekwa, Thomas help 4x100 relay improve its times
Friday, May 15, 2009
By Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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Jonathan Quilter | Dispatch
Ohio State football players Lamaar Thomas, left, and Chimdi Chekwa helped the 4x100 relay set an NCAA regional qualifying time of 40.51 seconds two weeks ago.

Ohio State assistant track coach Ed Bethea could claim to be a genius for the way the 4x100 relay team suddenly picked up steam. But he said it's really because of the addition of football players Chimdi Chekwa and Lamaar Thomas.

With the Buckeyes playing host to the Big Ten championships this weekend in Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium, Chekwa and Thomas have made OSU a strong contender in the relay. If it meant replacing two other runners, Bethea said blame the stopwatch -- an NCAA regional qualifying time of 40.51 seconds two weeks ago with Chekwa and Thomas in the mix -- not the coach.

"You want your best guys, you want your fastest guys out there," Bethea said. "At this level, that's what you have to do.

"There are going to be guys who have been out here since September that are going to be, 'Hey, what about me?' But speed is the name of the game and everyone understands what our goal is: We want our fastest relay on the track. And if that's going to include football guys, so be it."

Relay teams are often in flux, but there was a click a couple of weeks ago for the Buckeyes in the 4x100 when James Manley handed off to Stephen Robinson, who handed off to Thomas, who handed off to Chekwa, the anchor.

Chekwa, a junior cornerback who has run the past couple of years for the track team, had a feeling Thomas, a freshman receiver who was a high school track star in Maryland, would add pop. They had to finish spring football practice first, but Chekwa was in Thomas' ear throughout.

"I was recruiting him for almost a year, trying to get him out here," Chekwa said. "I wanted either him or (freshman receiver) DeVier Posey or (junior running back) Brandon Saine -- I needed somebody else to come out here so we could win this 4x100.

"We needed just one guy. Saine (the Ohio high school record-holder in the 100-meter dash at 10.38 seconds) was thinking about it, but he decided to enjoy his time off."
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