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As mentioned, I think it was 6-8 weeks recovery. Recovery doesn't mean game ready. I imagine the potential 300-500 extra pounds of pressure a D-Lineman might encounter on a given play might double, or even triple the "game ready" estimates :)
 
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Ohio State DE ready to return to starting position on top unit

Lawrence Wilson missed 2007 season and the BCS title game after breaking his leg in the opener.

By Kyle Nagel
Staff Writer

Wednesday, April 02, 2008
COLUMBUS ? Lawrence Wilson, who missed almost the entire 2007 regular season with a broken leg, had practiced with the Ohio State football team leading up to the BCS championship game. As the game neared, many wondered whether the defensive end would see the field.
"I knew I wasn't going to play before the game, but as soon as you get into warm-ups the juices started flowing," Wilson said surrounded by reporters on Tuesday, April 1. "I actually second-guessed myself. I was thinking, 'Should I run out there? Should I not?'"



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OHIO STATE FOOTBALL INSIDER



Helmet in hand, Wilson ready to go



Wednesday, April 02, 2008 Doug Lesmerises

Plain Dealer Reporter
Columbus- Is Ohio State defensive end Lawrence Wilson ready to get back at it after breaking his leg in the season opener last year? Ready? He was so ready to get on the field in the national title game that he hid his own helmet.
"I walked behind one bench and hid my helmet behind there so if I wanted to run in the game, I would have to run behind two tables to get my helmet," Wilson said.
Playing in that loss to LSU would have burned a year of Wilson's eligibility. By staying out, he has two seasons of Buckeyes football remaining, starting with this fall, when he'll be back on the field as one of the starting defensive ends, opposite rising sophomore Cameron Heyward. As the defensive linemen were made available for interviews after Ohio State's fourth practice of spring ball Tuesday, defensive coordinator Jim Heacock emphasized how important it was that Wilson made it back at least to practice before the national title game. Now he's back where he left off.
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"I really thought he was set up to have a good year last year," Heacock said. "I'm just anxious for him to get his confidence back and play hard. He gives you some more emotional leadership. He's excitable and gets everyone juiced up a little bit."




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Ohio State football: Absence increases Wilson's hunger
Broken leg in first game last season frustrated defender
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 3:14 AM
By Ken Gordon


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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To ensure he didn't lose his head, Lawrence Wilson lost his helmet instead. The Ohio State defensive end was supposed to sit out the national championship game in January. He suffered a broken bone in his right leg in September and had grudgingly committed to missing the rest of the season and redshirting.
But he had recovered enough to return to practice leading up to the title game. And when the Buckeyes were on the Superdome field warming up, Wilson suddenly got the urge to suit up.
"I felt real good, for some reason," he said. "I guess the adrenaline was rushing."
Looking back, what he did next was probably his best move of the season. Wilson said he took his helmet and placed it under the Louisiana State bench.



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Gholston was a beast, but when you bring Wilson back and add another year of lifting and experience for the rest of the cast this DL loses nothing from last year.

Sick, sick, sick D.
 
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Gholston was a beast, but when you bring Wilson back and add another year of lifting and experience for the rest of the cast this DL loses nothing from last year.

Sick, sick, sick D.
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I have all the confidence in the world in Wilson, Heyward, Rose, Gibson....but losing a versatile guy like Gholston is huge. I'm not sure any of the other three guys mentioned above are as good as him on zone blitzes. Gholston was just a freak of an athlete with his hand down and dropping back in coverage. I think we will miss that aspect the most.
 
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Stud alert: Players ready to break out
Posted: July 7, 2008

DE Lawrence Wilson, 6-4, 274, Jr., Ohio State. Scout's take: "Saw him a couple of times as a freshman, then saw him in the spring before last fall, before he got hurt in the first game of the season. Still have my notes: 'Wilson better than Gholston?' The complete package. He can stop the run, and his size and wingspan -- he's 280 pounds, for goodness sake -- are impossible for those poor (offensive) tackles."
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Wilson key to OSU's defense
JASON LLOYD
08/07/2008

THE last time we saw Lawrence Wilson on a football field, he was on a stretcher, getting carted off the Ohio Stadium turf with his right leg broken in half.

Because of that, it might be unfair to call him the key to Ohio State's 2008 season. Then again, Lawrence Wilson is the key to Ohio State's 2008 season.

That is, of course, as long as everyone else stays healthy.

We know Beanie Wells will flirt with 2,000 yards, healthy or not.

We know James Laurinaitis will register 100 tackles, force a couple of fumbles and probably snag an interception or two.

We know Todd Boeckman will have his good days and his bad.

We also know Vernon Gholston and his 14 sacks are gone, and right now, we have no idea who will replace them.

For Ohio State's sake, it better be Wilson.

Sure, Cameron Heyward is available after a darn good -- and underrated -- freshman season. But it's unfair to demand 14 sacks from a sophomore still learning his position, particularly since he split last season between tackle and end.

Heck, it's unfair to ask anyone for 14 sacks, considering Gholston is the only player to gobble up that many quarterbacks in the 118-year history of Ohio State football.

Wilson, though, was supposed to be Gholston before Gholston. He came to Ohio State on signing day in 2005, after previously verbally committing to Notre Dame. As a freshman, he was compared to former Ohio State terror Will Smith, the dominant defensive end who left with 22 career sacks.

So far, with three sacks, Wilson hasn't kept his end of the deal.

Of course, it's not all his fault. He was stuck behind players like Mike Kudla and Jay Richardson early, then had the broken leg last year.

Now he's in his third season.

There is no one in his path on the depth chart, so there better not be anyone in his path to the quarterback. It's go time.

''I thought he was set up to have a really good year last year,'' defensive coordinator Jim Heacock said in the spring.

''I thought he was going to be a real cornerstone on the defense.''
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Ohio State football
Broken leg didn't break his faith
Wilson got additional inspiration from Gentry
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 3:21 AM
By Tim May


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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Ohio State's Lawrence Wilson gets carted off the field after suffering an injury last season in the first half of the opener against Youngstown State.

Just in case the marauding defensive end thing doesn't work out for Lawrence Wilson, he might consider a career in public relations with a specialty of damage control. Just ask his father. Eugene Wilson watched his younger son go down with a broken lower right leg in Ohio State's opener last year against Youngstown State.
"That's tough to watch. You're kind of in shock for a couple of seconds," Eugene Wilson said. "Your first thought is you want to run down there and out onto that field to be with him."
He could tell by the way the trainers and doctors worked on his son, then carted him up the ramp, that it wasn't a bruise. The 2007 season was expected to be Lawrence Wilson's coming-out party -- he'd already had a sack -- and suddenly it was over.
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