DE Chase Young (Nagurski, Hendricks, Bednarik, Silver Football, NFL DROY, New Orleans Saints)

[Bestbuck36]

Chase Young and Dan Wilkinson are the two best defensive linemen in OSU history. I believe that with all my heart.

Kid is incredible and I hope the coaches give him a shot at 20 sacks

 

[ScriptOhio]

Buckeyes amazed by Chase Young's career day: 'Like nothing I've seen before'

Ohio State defensive line coach Larry Johnson has mentored seven first-round NFL draft picks and 14 players who have won Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year or Defensive Lineman of the Year.

But Johnson has never seen a single-game performance as dominant as the one his latest great pupil, Ohio State junior defensive end Chase Young, delivered Saturday in the third-ranked Buckeyes' 38-7 win over No. 13 Wisconsin on Saturday. As he left the field Saturday, Johnson told ESPN that Young's day -- four sacks, five tackles for loss, two forced fumbles -- tops his list. Several other Buckeyes coaches echoed Johnson, saying they've never seen anything like what Young did against the Badgers.

"His get-off, his speed, it's unbelievable," co-defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley said. "It's like nothing I've seen before. It's ridiculous."

Young didn't downplay what he did against Wisconsin.

"The best game I've played in my whole career," Young told ESPN. "That's the best one. I could say last year, the Penn State [game], but I played way better in this one."

Young tied Ohio State's single-game records for both sacks and tackles for loss. He also forced two fumbles for the second time this season. The 6-foot-5, 265-pound junior has 13.5 sacks in Ohio State's first eight games, just a half-sack behind Vernon Gholston's single-season team record set in 2007.

"The best I've been around," Ohio State head coach Ryan Day said. "I had a chance to see Nick Bosa last year and I coached in the NFL and saw some really good players at different times. But he is as good as I've been around, again, because he's so versatile."

Ohio State started off by moving Young to different line positions, even using him as a stand-up linebacker, in order to throw off Wisconsin's protections. Wisconsin rarely double-teamed Young, and occasionally put a tight end on him.

"I said, 'All right, let me go then, that's cool,'" Young said. "They slid [protections] to me every time."

Badgers coach Paul Chryst called Young "a heck of a football player" but said the offensive line couldn't completely ignore Ohio State's other defensive linemen in its protection schemes.

"You're trying to have protections that give whoever's with him, on him, responsible for him, some form of help," Chryst said. "A couple times we had it, we weren't successful in taking care of that. And then there's sometimes they can force it to where it still ends up being a one-on-one."

Young ended four Wisconsin drives with sacks or tackles for loss. With Ohio State up 24-7 late in the third quarter, he ended consecutive Badgers possessions with strip-sacks of quarterback Jack Coan.

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/college-footba...yes-amazed-chase-young-career-day-seen-before

 

[ScriptOhio]

WISCONSIN NOTEBOOK: URBAN MEYER RETURNS TO THE SHOE, JUSTIN HILLIARD STARTS IN OHIO STATE'S FOUR-LINEBACKER DEFENSE, CHASE YOUNG MOONLIGHTS AT LINEBACKER

YOUNG LINES UP AT LINEBACKER
Ohio State didn’t need to do anything different with Chase Young for him to have a dominant game on Saturday, as he wreaked havoc on the Badgers’ offensive line throughout the game from his traditional defensive end spot. Young tied a school record with four sacks on Saturday, and all of those came as a defensive end – two from the left side and two from the right side, including one strip sack from each side.

The Buckeyes also introduced a new wrinkle with Young on Saturday, though, which showed yet another side of one of college football’s freakiest athletes.

With Wisconsin facing 3rd-and-8 on its second possession of the game, the Buckeyes turned Young into a standup middle linebacker, while Baron Browning lined up as a standup defensive tackle.

Wisconsin called a timeout in response to the unexpected look from Ohio State’s defense, but it didn’t matter.

Ohio State stuck with the same formation after the timeout, and Young executed the defensive play to perfection. After bursting through the middle of the line to bring pressure on Wisconsin quarterback Jack Coan and forcing him to dump the ball off quickly to running back Garrett Groshek, Young quickly turned around and caught Groshek from behind (with help from Browning and actual defensive tackle Robert Landers, who impeded the runner) for a 1-yard tackle for loss.



Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...ts-chase-young-linebacker-urban-meyer-returns

 

[LordJeffBuck]

 

[BB73]

His four sacks were indeed each in a different quarter of the game.

I posted it in the game thread yesterday. They can close the voting on the Hendricks, Nagurski, and Bednarik awards at this point. Those contests are over.

If he gets to 20 sacks and the top QBs struggle in their marquee games, he'll have a shot at the Heisman, but it would take struggles by Jeaux B and Jalen Hurts in their final games, they have racked up huge stats.

 

[Bill Lucas]

There’s the Heisman Trophy and there’s the best player in college football. Chase Young is the best player in college football.

 

[Jaxbuck]

This is the jaw dropping one for me

Those numbers seem fake

unreal

 

[BB73]

There’s the Heisman Trophy and there’s the best player in college football. Chase Young is the best player in college football.

I wonder if the Maxwell or Walter Camp voters would give it to Chase Young in order to be perceived differently than the Heisman voters, and actually give it to the 'best player'. Either of those would be awesome for a defensive player.

 

[bucknut502]

So Chase Young is on pace (thru 13 games because that’s when the Heisman is awarded) for these numbers:

Tackles - 47
TFL - 25
Sacks - 22
Forced Fumbles - 8

Here are a few notable DE’s best seasons for comparison...

Jadeveon Clowney
Tackles - 40
TFL - 23.5
Sacks - 13
FF - 3

Myles Garrett.
Tackles - 59
TFL - 19.5
Sacks - 11.5
FF - 5

Joey Bosa. (15 games)
Tackles - 55
TFL - 21.5
Sacks - 13.5
FF - 4

 

[ScriptOhio]

There’s the Heisman Trophy and there’s the best player in college football. Chase Young is the best player in college football.

I wonder if the Maxwell or Walter Camp voters would give it to Chase Young in order to be perceived differently than the Heisman voters, and actually give it to the 'best player'. Either of those would be awesome for a defensive player.

He should be in strong consideration for these:

 

[Dryden]

 

[Buckeneye]

If Chase keeps this pace up somehow, then that's it for me. He'll be the best to ever lace em' up on that side of the ball in tOSU history IMHO. And no, I'm not simply going off of recent history or what is "fresh" in my mind.

He IS that good.

 

[BB73]

He should be in strong consideration for these:

I gave him the Hendricks, Nagurski, and Bednarik in an earlier post. I didn't include the Rotary Lombardi, but I should have included that possibility, and they changed it to best overall player rather than best defensive lineman/linebacker a couple of years ago.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Chase Young ‘the most dominant player in all of college football’

In December 1996 the Heisman Trophy voters, in their infinite wisdom, decided that Florida quarterback Danny Wuerrfel was the outstanding player in the nation.

That was fine, except for the fact that that year a gentleman named Orlando Pace also played college football.

To date, possibly outside of the year that Ndamukong Suh finished fourth, that remains the single greatest miscarriage of Heisman justice.

The plaque on the base of the Heisman Trophy reads “Awarded annually to the outstanding college football player in the United States by the Heisman Trophy Trust.”

In reality, it should say something like “Awarded to the quarterback or running back from a top-10 team who puts up the gaudiest stats, and/or builds the most compelling narrative arc.”

Every single Heisman this century has gone to a player at one of two positions.

The Heisman as a concept is a wonderful and noble idea. The Heisman in execution is just Davey O’Brien Award 2: Electric Boogaloo.

This year, Ohio State junior defensive end Chase Young is The Outstanding Player In College Football, and it’s not particularly close.

At a school with a legendary history of great pass rushers, Young is doing things that have never been seen before.

Saturday against Wisconsin, he tied the school record with four sacks in a game. He had five tackles for loss. He forced two fumbles.

He became just the second player in OSU history with back-to-back double-digit sack seasons.

He has already surpassed the best season Nick Bosa ever put up, and matched the best season of Joey Bosa’s college career with 13.5 sacks this year.

Chase Young needs one sack to break the single-season Ohio State sack record. By the way, it is still October. The Buckeyes could play as many as seven more games.

“He’s probably the most dominant player in all of college football now,” said OSU head coach Ryan Day after the game.

“Chase is a great player, everybody knows that. He’s probably the best defensive player in the country,” said OSU quarterback Justin Fields.

For as dominating as he has been on the stat sheet, Young’s impact often goes far beyond that. His presence draws extra attention and extra blockers, freeing his teammates to make plays as well.

“They want to slide everybody to over him,” said co-defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley. “We brought a corner today, we brought other people away from him. It just sets up a lot of other one-on-ones that you have.”

Entire article: https://theozone.net/2019/10/chase-young-the-most-dominant-player-in-all-of-college-football/

 

[Dryden]