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LB Alex “Sonny” Styles (Official Thread)

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When former Ohio State linebacker Lorenzo Styles reflects on his six-year NFL career, he knew versatility was vital to any career longevity.

Drafted in the third round of the 1995 NFL draft by the Atlanta Falcons, Styles eventually played outside linebacker and contributed on special teams for the Falcons for two seasons and the St. Louis Rams for four. Styles eventually moved into coaching and preached to any player the importance of utilizing multiple skills. He passed on the same lesson to his son, Sonny Styles, who eventually would become a five-star recruit and a 2022 Ohio State safety/linebacker signee.

“My NFL career, I know that old cliche, the more you can do,” Lorenzo said on Wednesday at Sonny’s signing day ceremony at Pickerington Central. “So I gave him that identity of the more you can do, the more valuable you are to a football team. You want to be able to have multiple tools in your toolbox to be able to go out and perform.”
 
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Before Sonny Styles begins his Ohio State football career this summer, he’s trying to win a high school basketball state championship first.

Although he reclassified into Ohio State’s recruiting class of 2022, which means he will skip his senior year at Pickerington Central High School to join the Buckeyes a year early, his high school sports career isn’t quite done yet. He’s hoping it will continue for at least one more week, as he’s trying to help lead the Pickerington Central boys’ basketball team to its second state championship.

Styles, who picked up a handful of Division I basketball offers over the summer but has since decided to focus exclusively on football in college, is an impact player on both ends of the floor for the Tigers, who have gone 23-2 this season and are set to play Gahanna Lincoln in the Columbus regional final at 7 p.m. Saturday at Ohio Dominican University.

 
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