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I do not choose to discuss it
I saw that.
I think an open scholarship for the 2020 recruiting class (potentially the best ever on paper) is more important than having a sixth year backup. We are not hurting for depth in the middle of the OL.
That is the source of my inquiry regarding why the team would pursue filing for a sixth year of eligibility.
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OSU Football graduates from this weekend (4 fifth year guys)
Football Campbell, Parris Sociology
Football Dixon, Johnnie Sociology
Football Jones, Dre'Mont Sociology
Football Pridgeon, Malcolm Human Development and Family Science
Football Taylor, Brady Family Resource Management
Football Campbell, Parris Sociology
Football Dixon, Johnnie Sociology
Football Jones, Dre'Mont Sociology
Football Pridgeon, Malcolm Human Development and Family Science
Football Taylor, Brady Family Resource Management
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
BRADY TAYLOR'S OHIO STATE CAREER CHALLENGED HIM ON AND OFF THE FIELD, BUT PREPARED HIM FOR LIFE AFTER FOOTBALL
As Brady Taylor sat at his locker following the conclusion of Ohio State’s Rose Bowl win over Washington on Jan. 1, reality set in.
Taylor, who was substituted into the lineup for the Buckeyes’ final kneel-down to wrap up their 28-23 victory, had played in his final football game. The fifth-year senior offensive lineman, who was sidelined for most of his final season at Ohio State after undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery, had already decided that he would not pursue a professional football career due to the physical toll injuries had taken on his body.
So when a reporter approached Taylor after the game to ask him about playing for the final time as a Buckeye, Taylor was suddenly overcome with emotion. After politely shooing the reporter away, Taylor sat at his locker crying for the next 45 minutes.
“My heart just dropped there for a second,” Taylor said while recalling that moment in a recent interview with Eleven Warriors. “It really hit me in the heart that something that I’ve loved since I started playing tackle football at 7 years old (was over) … there’s not really any words that would describe that feeling.”
Taylor’s Ohio State career didn’t go the way he had hoped – at least, not on the field. He never started a game for the Buckeyes after being passed over for the starting center job in each of his final three seasons, and was forced to accept that he would not get a chance to play in the NFL, unlike many of his Ohio State teammates.
Just taking the field for even a single snap in the Rose Bowl, though, can be considered an accomplishment after all that Taylor battled through over the past five years.
After serving as a backup to Jacoby Boren for his first two seasons at Ohio State, Taylor could have been in line to be the Buckeyes’ new starting center in 2016. The coached decided to move fifth-year senior Pat Elflein to center instead.
A year later, Taylor found himself in the same position as possibly being next in line to start at center as a redshirt junior in 2017. Once again, the coaching staff decided to move fifth-year senior Billy Price from guard to center.
Elflein and Price both went on to win the Rimington Trophy as the best center in college football, so Taylor couldn’t be bitter.
“People want you to be upset about that or whatever, it’s like, no, they were the best, most elite player at that position, you can’t be upset about that,” Taylor said. “That’s what competition’s bred on.”
Going into his fifth-year senior season at Ohio State, Taylor was supposed to finally get his opportunity to be the Buckeyes’ starting center. He ran with the first-team offense throughout last spring, and was still in that role when preseason camp began.
A couple weeks into camp, however, Taylor – who underwent five surgeries during his Ohio State career – suffered another setback.
“We got into that third scrimmage, I was playing well and first drive, we come out on the field, second play and D-lineman came across my face, I went to pick up the twist and my knee just kind of, just hurt,” Taylor said. “I felt it in my bones. That’s kind of how it is with ligament stuff. And I was trying to run on it and play on it and I was just playing terrible through it, and I remember I woke up the next day and my knee was about the size of probably a volleyball.”
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...ield-but-prepared-him-for-life-after-football
As Brady Taylor sat at his locker following the conclusion of Ohio State’s Rose Bowl win over Washington on Jan. 1, reality set in.
Taylor, who was substituted into the lineup for the Buckeyes’ final kneel-down to wrap up their 28-23 victory, had played in his final football game. The fifth-year senior offensive lineman, who was sidelined for most of his final season at Ohio State after undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery, had already decided that he would not pursue a professional football career due to the physical toll injuries had taken on his body.
So when a reporter approached Taylor after the game to ask him about playing for the final time as a Buckeye, Taylor was suddenly overcome with emotion. After politely shooing the reporter away, Taylor sat at his locker crying for the next 45 minutes.
“My heart just dropped there for a second,” Taylor said while recalling that moment in a recent interview with Eleven Warriors. “It really hit me in the heart that something that I’ve loved since I started playing tackle football at 7 years old (was over) … there’s not really any words that would describe that feeling.”
Taylor’s Ohio State career didn’t go the way he had hoped – at least, not on the field. He never started a game for the Buckeyes after being passed over for the starting center job in each of his final three seasons, and was forced to accept that he would not get a chance to play in the NFL, unlike many of his Ohio State teammates.
Just taking the field for even a single snap in the Rose Bowl, though, can be considered an accomplishment after all that Taylor battled through over the past five years.
After serving as a backup to Jacoby Boren for his first two seasons at Ohio State, Taylor could have been in line to be the Buckeyes’ new starting center in 2016. The coached decided to move fifth-year senior Pat Elflein to center instead.
A year later, Taylor found himself in the same position as possibly being next in line to start at center as a redshirt junior in 2017. Once again, the coaching staff decided to move fifth-year senior Billy Price from guard to center.
Elflein and Price both went on to win the Rimington Trophy as the best center in college football, so Taylor couldn’t be bitter.
“People want you to be upset about that or whatever, it’s like, no, they were the best, most elite player at that position, you can’t be upset about that,” Taylor said. “That’s what competition’s bred on.”
Going into his fifth-year senior season at Ohio State, Taylor was supposed to finally get his opportunity to be the Buckeyes’ starting center. He ran with the first-team offense throughout last spring, and was still in that role when preseason camp began.
A couple weeks into camp, however, Taylor – who underwent five surgeries during his Ohio State career – suffered another setback.
“We got into that third scrimmage, I was playing well and first drive, we come out on the field, second play and D-lineman came across my face, I went to pick up the twist and my knee just kind of, just hurt,” Taylor said. “I felt it in my bones. That’s kind of how it is with ligament stuff. And I was trying to run on it and play on it and I was just playing terrible through it, and I remember I woke up the next day and my knee was about the size of probably a volleyball.”
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...ield-but-prepared-him-for-life-after-football
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Good kid. He's from my neighborhood. I hope he realizes his full potential in whatever career he chooses. I think Ready and OSU prepared him for life.
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