• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

CB Devon Torrence (official thread)

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
DT, is a tall athletic CB. He showed his athleticism on his defending and the pick by Moeller. He's better than Donald Washington. Similar type of athlete. I'd like to see Pitsbugh Brown get more reps with Howard out. Also look for Christian Bryant & Dominic Clarke to get time at CB with these injuries. Saftey depth is a bigger concern than CB.
 
Upvote 0
Bill Lucas;1776421; said:
Torrence and Barnett don't play the same position. Perhaps you are thinking of Orhian Johnson?
Click to expand...

Fully aware of their positions, I should have clarified: we needed someone in the secondary to step up. I still think Orhian Johnson is unproven but I like what I have seen.
 
Upvote 0
WhoDeyForever;1776956; said:
Hasn't had a lot of chances IMO. But like you said, so far so good out of him.
Click to expand...

I love his attitude, you could see it on display when he ripped that ball out Saturday. Unfortunately it will be a few weeks until our secondary gets a real test. We've been ball hawking, which is a good sign.
 
Upvote 0
BuckeyeNation27;1777489; said:
I just rewatched the Miami game on the BTN. He had one hell of a game, both in pass defense and run support. He's quickly becoming on of my favorites on this year's team.
Click to expand...

I rewatched it a couple of days ago when I burned it to a DVD to clear space on my DVR. This was one of the things I noticed that I didn't pick up while watching it the first time. Torrence played a great game against arguably the best athletes he'll face all year (until Julio Jones anyway).
 
Upvote 0
Torrence has it covered at cornerback
Friday, September 24, 2010
By Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

If Devon Torrence had been quizzed a few years ago on the role of a cornerback, he probably would have talked a lot about man-to-man coverage and making interceptions. Watch the NFL every Sunday - that's what corners do.

A major part of Torrence's education at Ohio State has been discovering that college football demands a different approach - not that he should be chastised for needing a learning curve. Torrence showed up at OSU in 2007 as a multi-sport talent. In baseball, he was a talented prospect who had been drafted by the Houston Astros; in football, he was labeled an athlete who might quickly help the Buckeyes as a receiver.

But as he started to show last season and has proved in three games this year, Torrence took seriously his switch to cornerback two years ago. Now a senior, he's playing like a big-time college corner opposite Chimdi Chekwa in the OSU secondary.

"I had to really figure out what was a corner's role, and what was good for a corner to do," Torrence said. "I didn't know what was really expected of a cornerback, but I kind of figured that out. And Chim helps me out with understanding the position, and understanding little tricks of the trade to make me get better."
Click to expand...

http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...nce-has-it-covered-at-cornerback.html?sid=101
 
Upvote 0
Helmet to helmet hit: Ohio State's Torrence trades in baseball gear, makes smooth transition to concentrating on playing cornerback at OSU
Published: Friday, October 15, 2010
0diggsdigg
By John Kampf
[email protected]

nh3162803.jpg


COLUMBUS ? If Devon Torrence could find the brakes, he might slow things down a little bit.

Not on Ohio State's current run toward a national championship, but on the speed of which it is going.

Torrence is a starting cornerback for the top-ranked Buckeyes, who will take their 6-0 record to Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday to play 18th-ranked Wisconsin. Coach Jim Tressel calls him a "young senior," since the Canton South product has only been giving college football his undivided attention for two years now and is still picking up the ins and outs of his position.

Torrence was a 16th-round draft pick of the Houston Astros and played two years for the Greenville Astros of the Appalachain League before finally hanging up his baseball spikes so as to concentrate on football for the Buckeyes.

Now he has finally gained his footing back on the gridiron, it's almost over ? and he isn't ready for that yet.

"I feel like it's bittersweet," the 6-foot-2, 200-pounder said. "I'm a senior this year, and we're doing a great job playing football. But at the same time, I just got on the field and how I have to leave within seven or eight games."
Click to expand...

http://news-herald.com/articles/2010/10/15/sports/nh3162803.txt
 
Upvote 0
Turning the corner
Not long ago, Devon Torrence was struggling with a baseball career, family issues and a switch from offense to defense. Now a senior, he has found his place -- on the field and off.
Friday, October 29, 2010
By Ken Gordon
The Columbus Dispatch

torrence.gif

torrence600.jpg

TAKING HIS PICK: Devon Torrence, who wore number 10 last season, celebrates his key fourth-quarter interception against Michigan. Torrence picked off Tate Forcier in the end zone to thwart a potential touchdown, and the Buckeyes went on to win 21-10. (Neal C. Lauron | Dispatch)

The curveballs came at Devon Torrence, one after the other, in the summer of 2008.

They came at him literally -- as a second-year minor-league baseball player in Greenville, Tenn. -- a Houston Astros' rookie-league team. Torrence had a hard time handling those, batting .150.

They came at him personally -- his younger brother Devoe, once set to join Devon on the Ohio State football team -- was on trial, facing a juvenile rape charge. He was acquitted in early July.

And still, the curveballs kept looping in, locking him up.

When he reported to OSU's preseason camp late that summer, he headed to the receivers' room as usual. It had been what he played as a freshman in 2007.

"I noticed my picture wasn't on the wall," Torrence said, "and I was scratching my head like, `Hmmmmmm.' And I remember walking into the team meeting room -- we sit offense and then defense, and I went over to the offensive side, and my name wasn't on the list.

"It was over on the defensive side. I was like, `Tress (coach Jim Tressel) really wants me to play corner.'"
Click to expand...

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/buckeyextra/stories/gameday/2010/week9/cover_story.html
 
Upvote 0
Torrence will finish OSU career doing it his way
By Todd Porter
CantonRep.com staff writer
Posted Nov 08, 2010

g12c0000000000000007dd5dfcbd2c262f41b71e7f1686ad395c9d4dc11.jpg

AP / Mark Duncan
Ohio State cornerback Devon Torrence (back) is closing in on the end of his final season of football eligibility. It has come to fast for the Canton South High School graduate.

COLUMBUS ?

Each Saturday afternoon, when Devon Torrence walks off the field at Ohio Stadium, he spends a little more time taking it all in. Gathering with his teammates in the end zone after every game is no longer a formality. Singing ?Carmen Ohio? with the band isn?t corny any more. Sore and tired, when he leaves the stadium on game days, he doesn?t mind signing as many autographs as people want.

That?s because there are fewer Saturdays left. Every week, Torrence?s college football career gets closer to ending.

The Canton South High School graduate and two-sport star is taking stock of where he has been ? and where he?s going. Torrence will line up at cornerback and make his 20th start for Ohio State when it plays Penn State on Saturday.

In a few months, he will try to do something no Stark County athlete has ever done, and few have done it in the country. Torrence could be the county?s first professional baseball and football player.

Since he graduated from Canton South, Torrence?s career has taken him to both sides of the ball and two sports. Now, it?s all winding down.

?It?s crazy. I can?t believe ... but it?s here so I have to believe it. It went fast, I can tell you that,? Torrence said. ?I don?t know if I would say it?s bittersweet. I wish I would?ve gotten on the field earlier so I could have more memories of the on-the-field stuff. It?s not bittersweet. It?s just here. It really has gone fast.?
Click to expand...

http://www.cantonrep.com/sports/x115982715/Torrence-will-finish-OSU-career-doing-it-his-way
 
Upvote 0
Todd Porter: Torrence's TD turns game OSU's way
By Todd Porter
CantonRep.com staff writer
Posted Nov 13, 2010

g12c0000000000000003dc82d750797397aeb1d1fdd05df0cc3c1e4f2f4.jpg

AP / Al Behrman
Ohio State defensive back Devon Torrence intercepts a pass by Penn State quarterback Matt McGloin in the second half of Saturday's game in Columbus. Torrence returned the interception 34 yards for a touchdown.

COLUMBUS ?

In four years of playing football at Ohio State, this was something new for Devon Torrence. He never saw this side of his mild-mannered head coach, Jim Tressel. He never saw that kind of passion in his eye. He never heard that kind of urgency in his voice.

It was halftime of Saturday?s game against Penn State, and the eighth-ranked Buckeyes played a terrible half of football. A walk-on quarterback was shredding Ohio State?s passive coverage to bits. The Nittany Lions had Ohio Stadium silent ? save the boo birds that showered the Buckeyes into the halftime locker room.

Down 14-3 to unranked Penn State, Tressel stood before his team and challenged them in ways they had never heard.

?Maybe we learned that it?s not all about how you?re ready football-wise, but how you?re ready as a man,? Tressel said after the game, a 38-14 Ohio State win. That was the biggest halftime comeback OSU has had under Tressel. ?The halftime locker room was not a fun place.?

His words and emotion lit up his team. Tressel isn?t a fiery rah-rah coach. That?s not his style. It did become his persona Saturday evening, though.

Passion? Anger? Fear? Inspiration?

?It was everything rolled together,? Torrence said. ?That was the most fired up I?ve ever seen him. Normally, Coach Tress, he?s passive and relaxed. He?s calm. He never yells in practice. When he came into the locker room this time, I saw something different in him. It was something I didn?t know was there.?
Click to expand...

http://www.cantonrep.com/newsnow/x684368898/Todd-Porter-Torrences-TD-turns-game-OSUs-way
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top