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DT Doug Worthington (Official Thread)

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Leaping lineman

Defensive lineman Doug Worthington recorded a sack last week by leaping over Illinois lineman Jeff Allen and landing next to quarterback Juice Williams.

"I don't know what happened, it was a little instinctive move," Worthington said. "We watched X - M en (Friday), and Sabertooth and the X-Men, in their fight, it was all jumping around, so I just wanted to jump and get to him."
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Ohio State DE has rebounded from DUI arrest
By JON SPENCER • News Journal • October 1, 2009

COLUMBUS -- Five years after entering college, Ohio State defensive end Doug Worthington is still being recruited.
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The Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity wants him. Worthington appreciates being wanted -- probably more than the Alphas will ever know -- but he's not interested.

"My uncle is a regional president of the Alphas and he's gotten on me about joining," Worthington said this summer while representing Ohio State at the Big Ten Media Days in Chicago. "But I have a great fraternity, a great brotherhood with this team and I don't want anything to get in the way of it."

Worthington, named defensive player of the week for his performance in Saturday's 30-0 win over Illinois, found out just how much his OSU family meant to him and how much he meant to his extended family last summer when he was arrested by campus police for drunken driving just outside of Ohio Stadium.

The case was continued to January, with the judge fining Worthington $350 and ordering him to attend an alcohol intervention class.

To say that slip-up is now a speck in his rearview mirror would be an understatement.

The 6-foot-6, 276-pound Worthington, one of seven fifth-year seniors on defense, was voted a co-captain by his teammates in August, joining safety Kurt Coleman and linebacker Austin Spitler. He's in his third year as a starter on the line, where he has seen action at both end and tackle.

While the DUI is behind him, it's not forgotten.

"I made a mistake, not a little mistake but a huge mistake, and to still have coach (Jim) Tressel and the community embrace me, it's just unreal," Worthington said.
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Risers/Sliders for 2010 NFL Draft
By Tony Pauline, Special to SI.com, TFYDraft.com

Risers

Doug Worthington/DT/Ohio State: The Buckeyes senior captain was given a late-round grade by NFL scouts before the season, but he has changed that opinion just six games into the season. He's posted 19 tackles and registered a sack yet the stats don't tell the entire story. Worthington has been a disruptive force and a tough lineman for opponents to handle. He regularly collapses the pocket, which forces quarterbacks to improvise or running backs to alter their plans. Worthington has moved into the middle rounds of the draft and could climb higher.
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Buckeyes DE Worthington is a kid at heart
The Associated Press
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

COLUMBUS, Ohio ? What's brewing today with the 2009 Ohio State Buckeyes ...

BUCKEYES BUZZ:@ Doug Worthington is 6-foot-6 and 276 pounds and likes nothing more than to crunch ball-carriers. Yet we all forgetfrom time to time that he's still just a 22-year-old kid.

He was asked by a local TV sports anchor what, since the Buckeyes are playing on Halloween, his favorite trick-or-treat costume was.

"It had to be Casper. My mom, she bought me a Casper The Friendly Ghost mask and it was something that I was pretty fond of," Worthington said. "I wore it probably all the way to Christmas. I actually won an award at the Old Country Buffet when I went to eat that night. It was something that was really special to me and it's something that she actually still has. It's funny when I go back home and I see it."

Worthington said he might go to a Halloween party after Ohio State's game on Saturday.

"I might be Shaft or something. I haven't got a costume yet," he said. "I might be a football player. Maybe just get my equipment and be a Buckeye. Or I might not go to a party, might just go out to the movies and see a scary movie."

No matter what he does, he hopes he gets some small visitors to his apartment.

"I hope I get some trick-or-treaters around my house," he said. "I've got a whole bunch of candy, so they can take it."

It was suggested that maybe he should try to wear a mask inside his helmet.

"I'll put my game face on; that'd be just as important," he said.
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I think he's scary enough the way he is. I'm about Shaun Lane's size. :paranoid:

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Worthington prepares to say goodbye, Columbus
Former St. Francis star nears end of Ohio State career
By Jim Wojtanik
News Sports Reporter
Updated: November 07, 2009

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Doug Worthington leads Ohio State defensive linemen with 29 tackles this season.

Ohio Stadium is about as imposing a structure for a visiting college football team as there is.

Built during the Warren G. Harding administration, the horseshoe-shaped grand gray lady holds 105,000, nearly all of whom root rabidly for one of the most successful college football programs in the country.

And next week, Ohio State defensive lineman and St. Francis graduate Doug Worthington will enter that field for the last time.

"We were all talking about it last week [a 45-0 pasting of New Mexico State last Saturday], that this last game was the last time we'd all be running through the tunnel together as a team," said Worthington, who will be honored with other seniors before the game with Iowa next week. "It's been a blessing to play here. You really can't put words into it."

His defensive coordinator and line coach, Jim Heacock, has been with the team for 14 years and has seen a lot of Senior Days, but even he admits that they are emotional.

"They can be tough," he said. "But in the coaching profession one thing you get satisfaction from is seeing a young man grow while he's here. And Doug has certainly done that."

The 6-foot-6, 276-pound Worthington came to Columbus after an outstanding two-year career at St. Francis, where he landed after Turner-Carroll closed its doors. A redshirt and member of the scout team in 2005, he suffered a right knee injury on the first day of bowl practice, had surgery and sat out all of the winter workouts and spring practice.

But after much hard work, he was a full-time starter by his sophomore year and voted a team captain for this season. He leads all Ohio State defensive linemen with 29 tackles and his fumble recovery in the season opener against Navy helped the Buckeyes win a game that proved tougher than expected.

And now he's in position to be a middle-round pick in next spring's NFL draft.

"Right now he's projected to be a third- or fourth-rounder," said Jerry Smith, his high school coach at St. Francis. "If he can bulk up to 290-295 pounds he could be higher."

Smith recalled with fondness all the attention that came during the recruiting process.

"There were about 20 or 21 schools interested in Doug," he said. "Before he flew to Florida to be announced as coach, Urban Meyer and his entourage came up to take a look at him. Alabama came several times when Mike Shula was the coach. Penn State and Boston College also wanted him."

But for Worthington, his choice was made easy thanks to the Buckeyes' head coach, Jim Tressel.

"He not only teaches you about football, but he teaches us how to become young men," he said.
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OSU notebook: Worthington relishes beating 'that helmet'
Thursday, November 19, 2009
By Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

When Doug Worthington was growing up in western New York, he didn't know much about the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry.

"I remember Michigan's helmet; I remember telling my father I thought it was cool, but that's about it," Worthington said. "Now I can't stand that helmet so (that memory) is kind of a little bit crazy."

Worthington, a fifth-year senior defensive lineman, is a co-captain for the Buckeyes, who carry a five-game winning streak into the 106th renewal of The Game on Saturday in Ann Arbor, Mich.

"I want to continue it; I don't want to be part of the senior class that lost to Michigan," Worthington said.

That's because he's now immersed in the tradition of Ohio State, which coach Jim Tressel makes required learning.

"Now I know everything about it, and it's running through my blood just as much as it is for these guys from Ohio," Worthington said.
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GrizzlyBuck;1600535; said:
The Captain has come through some adversity (some self inflicted I know) and for his going out party, how about a po-Tater pancake :biggrin: (corny I know, but I get giddy on the day of the Game)
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Given our front four and the tremendous depth we have there, I think the Wolverines can expect a steady diet of smashed Taters today.
 
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