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DE Tyler Friday (Official Thread)

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pnuts34 said:
His depth will be needed next season. Hopefully he can stay healthy
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Really hoping he stays healthy this year, I thought there were times when Friday was playing as good, if not better, than most our DL when he was healthy. I know JTT and Sawyer have the inside track on starting job (or so it seems), but Friday and Harrison are going to be critical this season. JBB as well, maybe Curry based on reports. I think we will see a heavy rotation but Friday is a big part of that if he stays healthy. If he isn't healthy, I am a tad concerned on depth at DE this season...Abor and Kenyatta Jackson are excellent prospects that I think will be very good here, but it would not be ideal to have either playing critical minutes in big games.
 
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But Friday missed all of last season, suffering a torn ACL in last season’s fall camp with the season just weeks away. He stayed off the field last year while rehabbing his injury, but with kickoff just over two weeks away, Friday is back and ready to make an impact for Ohio State.

“I’m better all around,” he said. “Just changing my body, being able to get a little faster, a little stronger. These past couple of years have made me develop in a lot of ways.”

It wasn’t easy getting back to the field after his season-ending injury. Let alone after missing some additional time during the 2020 season, meaning Friday hasn’t been fully healthy since his sophomore season in 2019 in which he finished with two sacks, eight tackles and a fumble recovery in seven games. But Friday’s recovery was made easier given the support he received from Ohio State and the brotherhood.

“It was very difficult, but I’ve got a great team here full of brothers,” he said. “Instead of one brother, I got over 100 here at Ohio State,” he said. “During the tough times, I just leaned on them, my family, kept my faith in God and I was able to get through it.”

For all the growth he’s made as an athlete since he last played, Friday has also taken significant steps as a leader for Ohio State, named as one of the Buckeyes’ six captains for this upcoming season.

“It’s a big honor,” he said. “It was something I wasn’t even expecting myself. To come off an injury last year, to get that kind of title this year is a blessing.”
 
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brodybuck21 said:
Would love to see him have one of those breakout years

https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...turn-earned-him-captain-status-for-ohio-state
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Why he got elected one of the team captains.....

Given that premise ahead of time, one might have assumed returning defensive end Zach Harrison – a first-time captain last season – would hold that title again during his senior season. When Ohio State announced its captains after this past Saturday’s preseason scrimmage, though, that was not the case.

Buckeye players bestowed the honor upon a player who neither played a snap last year nor expected the status of captain in general. But in battling back from an ACL tear to return to the fold this season, fifth-year defensive end Tyler Friday earned the captain tag just as much for his leadership off the field as he did for his play on it.

"FRIDAY'S A GUY THAT THE OLDER GUYS, THE OTHER LEADERS GO TO FOR ADVICE AND GO TO FOR WHEN THEY GOT SOMETHING ON THEIR MIND."– ZACH HARRISON ON TYLER FRIDAY

Harrison has spent his entire college career with Friday by his side, and said he’s been consistently reliable throughout the past four years. Even as a former captain himself, Harrison said Friday has been a shoulder to lean on in times of uncertainty.

“Friday's been a leader since the day I walked in the building. Friday's a guy that the older guys, the other leaders go to for advice and go to for when they got something on their mind,” Harrison said. “I go to Friday when things aren't going right. And I know that Friday is gonna have my back and I got Friday's back. So having him as a captain and being one of the leaders on the team, it's like I expected it from day one that he was going to be one of those guys who put the team on his back and just led us to where we want to go.”

“Oh, man, that's the guy. You guys heard his story, he came in hurt and just came back grinding. You know, he came back like he never left,” Tuimoloau said. “A lot of these dudes missed him from last year and to see him out there is great. Just to see him out there, we missed him. But Tyler deserved it, he did everything to become a captain.”

Upon receiving the news this weekend, the Fridays were moved to tears.

“It was a crazy reaction from my parents. They wasn't expecting that at all,” Friday said. “I just kind of just told them they was gonna be getting a call soon, so they didn't know what that meant – good news or bad news. So once they finally heard it, they was excited, very emotional. I wasn't with them, but my mom said they did cry after the phone call.”
 
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DE TYLER FRIDAY
There are so many returning names populating the Ohio State defensive line room that it might be easy to forget about a veteran who was sidelined for all of last season. But if Larry Johnson is to be believed, fifth-year defensive end Tyler Friday “could play a lot” for the Buckeyes in 2022 after making a full recovery from a preseason ACL tear suffered last August. A first-time team captain this year, Friday says he’s a better all-around player on the field as well since rehabbing his injury, and brings the experience of 26 collegiate game appearances and five starts to the Buckeye front line.

It may be too much to expect a massive impact from Friday, who is still waiting on a true breakout moment in scarlet and gray, but the newly-minted captain might just sneak up on people on nonetheless.

https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...1-buckeyes-who-could-be-x-factors-this-season
 
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