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FB/LB Zach Boren (Official Thread)

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at the game yesterday...

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Boren on the Texans practice squad...

Boren confirmed his signing in a phone call after flying back to Houston from Columbus and said he had been given a good idea after he was cut this week that the Texans would bring him back.
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http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2013/09/updates_on_all_the_ohio_state.html

For one last day, on one last walk, Urban Meyer gave Zach Boren one more chance to be a Buckeye
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Urban Meyer saw 2012 captain Zach Boren on the walk from St. John Arena to Ohio Stadium and pulled him into line with the current players before Saturday's game against Buffalo. (Doug Lesmerises)
By Doug Lesmerises, Northeast Ohio Media Group
September 01, 2013

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State seniors woke up on Nov. 25 of last year to a perfect, and perfectly brutal, reality. After 12 straight victories and three long months of successfully pushing a bowl ban out of their minds, it was over.

They'd never play football as Buckeyes again.

Saturday, Zach Boren reluctantly returned to Ohio Stadium to confront that reality. There was nowhere Boren, a fullback, linebacker and captain last year, would have rather been, but he had to force himself to go.

“I knew it was going to be really hard on me,” Boren told Cleveland.com in a phone call Sunday. “I wanted to be out there playing in the Horseshoe again, and it's hard to kind of accept the fact that I've moved on, and I'm done with college.”

Boren's older brother, Justin, had gone through the same thing after the 2010 season. His younger brother Jacoby, a sophomore backup center with the Buckeyes, will face it some day as well. It happens to about 20 Buckeyes and to thousands of other college athletes each year. In talking with former players, Boren has been told it takes 18 months to two years to shake it all out, to get the blood, sweat and tears from your alma mater to seep out of your system and allow you to look ahead.

Standing by his parents Saturday along the pathway leading to Ohio Stadium, dressed in a red T-shirt and jeans, kept from the players on their walk from the Skull Session in St. John Arena to the stadium by a thin yellow rope, just like any fan, it hadn't left Boren yet. Not even close.

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http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2013/09/for_one_last_day_on_one_last_w.html
 
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The Houston Texans apparently liked what they saw in camp from fullback Zach Boren in terms of hustle and leadership — so much so, in fact, that they went to lengths to ensure that other NFL teams didn’t see too much of the former Ohio State player before signing him to the practice squad.

Boren, who originally joined Houston as an undrafted free agent in May, went through offseason training with the Texans and played extensively in the first preseason game. His appearances diminished precipitously the next two games, then he was cut last week, before Houston’s final exhibition game.

Such actions can be an indicator that a team is keeping a possible sleeper from being seen by other teams around the league. Limiting his “tape,” as it’s called, gives a team a better chance to hang on to him, since he first must clear waivers before another team can sign him. In Boren’s case, he was cut early and waited it out. The Texans re-signed him to the practice squad on Monday.
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