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OL Josh Myers (2nd Team All American, Green Bay Packers)



7. JOSH MYERS, C (997 SNAPS)
After starting no games in his first two years at Ohio State, Myers became a staple in the middle of the Buckeyes’ offensive line in 2019, playing all 925 snaps when the starting offensive line was on the field. He proved to be a rock-solid anchor for the Buckeyes’ front five, playing like a veteran en route to earning second-team All-Big Ten honors.

Now as a second-year starter, Myers is expected to be a legitimate Rimington Trophy contender as one of the best centers in all of college football. Ohio State typically prioritizes experience at center – last season, Myers became the first starting center since Jacoby Boren in 2014 who didn’t already have starting experience on the offensive line – and the Buckeyes are certainly glad to still have Myers as one of three returning starters up front.
 
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Josh Myers – 15%
If Wyatt Davis is the best offensive lineman with the least valuable position and Thayer Munford plays the most valuable position but doesn’t quite have the tape, Josh Meyers is the Goldilocks-esque prospect that rests right between the two. He’s put together good tape, but not quite at Davis’ level, and he plays center, which is more valuable than guard but less valuable than tackle.

Right now, Myers is projected as the class’ 3rd center (behind Creed Humphrey and Trey Smith) and is expected to go in the late 2nd or early 3rd. If he puts together a monster season, something he is more than capable of doing, he could shoot up to late first-round territory.
 
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A very 2020 photo

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TELECONFERENCE BULLETS: OHIO STATE’S SEVEN TEAM CAPTAINS TALK ABOUT LEADERSHIP, PREPARING FOR AN UNPRECEDENTED SEASON, STAYING SAFE DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

JOSH MYERS
  • Myers says that his “level of comfort in our safety is really high ... There's nothing more our coaches and staff can do to keep us safe. “I personally am confident that we're going to have a season,” and says he believes players should be able to make that choice. Fields agrees with Myers that he feels very comfortable about his safety in the program.
  • “I also think it’s a safe environment here where it’s clean and safe rather than being somewhere else,” Myers said. “I strongly, strongly believe that our coaches are gonna keep us safe through all this thing.”
  • Myers says there are “countless things” that makes Fields worthy of being a captain, including how approach he is to young guys in the program: “Being a Hesiman finalist, it can be intimidating to start a relationship with someone like Justin. ... How approachable and open he is to teaching, regardless of who they are or where they are in the program. And his natural leadership. Some people have it, some people don’t.”
  • When asked about the potential for the offensive line to be one of the best in the country, Myers says that with high expectations comes a lot of responsibility. But he also says that he believes “last year shows proof that the goal should always be to win the Joe Moore Award.”
  • Myers says that there is a lot of competition at left guard and right tackle but: “I don’t think we can put a wrong person in there. I think we’ll be successful whoever we put in there.”
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...bullets-ohio-state-s-seven-team-captains-talk
 
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JOSH MYERS WILL WIN THE RIMINGTON AWARD AS THE NATION'S BEST CENTER

I'll finish out going with 6-foot-5, 312-pound center Josh Myers to win the Rimington Award.

The redshirt junior out of Miamisburg was dominant at the center position in 2019 after arriving in Columbus as a four-star prospect at guard.

Myers teamed with Jonah Jackson and Wyatt Davis to give Ohio State an elite interior offensive line last year and there's no reason to think Myers won't be even better this fall.

Creed Humphrey at Oklahoma and Drake Johnson at Kentucky are just a couple of the guys Myers will have to surpass in order to claim the Rimington but I'm going with him to pull the upset, joining LeCharles Bentley (2001), Pat Elflein (2016) and Billy Price (2017) as Buckeyes to capture the award.



DAN: OSU WILL FEATURE THE TWO BEST INTERIOR OFFENSIVE LINEMEN IN CFB

It isn’t a bold prediction to say that Wyatt Davis will be the best interior offensive lineman in college football, given that he was already an All-American last year. As good as Davis is, though, I think Josh Myers gets overshadowed for just how good he is, too, and I think Myers will prove he’s the best center in the nation this year and become Ohio State’s third Rimington Trophy winner since 2016 while earning his own tree in Buckeye Grove.
 
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STOCK UP/DOWN: OHIO STATE'S RECEIVER DUO, QUARTERBACK SNEAKS WORKING, TWO-HEADED RUNNING BACK ROTATION

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QUARTERBACK SNEAKS

Let’s throw this back to a moment from last year. Remember when Josh Myers said these words?



Well, hopefully he still digs the quarterback sneak because it worked multiple times on Saturday and will certainly remain in Ryan Day’s playbook moving forward.

How much confidence does Day have in this play? He went to it on 4th-and-1 from Ohio State’s own 33-yard line in what was a tie game. That tells you everything you need to know. Fields picked up three yards in that instance, and he gained three yards on a 3rd-and-1 sneak in the first quarter, too.

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...eaks-working-two-headed-running-back-rotation
 
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This fall hasn't been a normal one for anybody in this country.

The coronavirus pandemic didn't stop 51 current and former Ohio State athletes from graduating from the university following the Autumn 2020 semester.

Former linebacker Ryan Shazier, point guard CJ Walker, center Josh Myers, former cornerback Jeff Okudah, defensive tackle Haskell Garrett, former offensive lineman Alex Boone, wing Musa Jallow and linebacker Tuf Borland were among those to earn degrees from their university during Sunday's virtual commencement ceremony.
 
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Take the word of Ohio State center Josh Myers.

Testing positive for Covid-19, then having to isolate for 10 days while one deals with any possible symptoms, then undergoing tests to make sure it hasn’t affected the cardiopulmonary system; then spending seven days to reacclimate to practicing and playing football again …

“The process was awful,” Myers said after the Big Ten title game.

That was shortly after he had made his return Saturday along with left tackle Thayer Munford and right tackle Nicholas Petit-Frere, who also had been in the Big Ten-mandated, 21-day, Covid-19 protocol the three weeks prior. They seemed none the worse for it, though, what with the way the offensive line paved the way for Trey Sermon’s school-record 331-yard rushing performance in the 22-10 win over Northwestern than earned a fourth straight Big Ten title for the Buckeyes.

“I thought I might have a hard time with it, just because of sitting out for the 10 days and literally not working out,” Myers said. “I figured I was gonna be pretty tired at the end of this game and I was, but not how I thought I was gonna be, so that was good. And it seemed like it was the same way for Nick and Thayer.”

Then will come the re-acclimation period in which the players are eased back into the practice and workout routines.

“We have a pretty good system in place for the skill guys, for the linemen,” Day said. “It’s very different. The skill guys, after that quarantine, they have to really make sure that their soft tissue injuries are minimized, and all of those types of things. Where with the big guys, it is a little bit more pushing and pulling and different things. The specialists have their own set of stuff.

“We put together a pretty good system that Shaun Barnhouse and Dr. [James] Borchers and [strength coach] Mick Marotti have all done an excellent job of keeping an eye on, so that you limit it. We have a percentage that once they get back to work, they’re allowed to do for that day, then we shut them down until they build back to 100 percent.”

Myers went through it, and he described the difficulty that accompanies the process — both mentally and physically.

“It is what it is,” Myers said. “But the process was terrible [watching Ohio State play from home]. I had to sit there for 10 days and basically do nothing. I had schoolwork and stuff I had to finish up for my internship. But other than that, I couldn’t work out because I couldn’t get my heart rate up. And so I was just sitting there, and it was 10 of probably the hardest days I’ve ever had in my life.

“With the Michigan State game, I was so proud and so happy for our guys on the offensive line who stepped up to the plate. … But sitting there watching your own team when you have so much invested into it too, it’s awful. I don’t have any other way to put it. When you invest so much and sacrifice so much and then you have to sit out, it’s hard to put into words how bad it is.”
 
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Josh Myers couldn’t help but smile after Ohio State captured another Big Ten title.

The Ohio State center had just came off the field after winning his fourth conference championship ring, holding a trophy that the Buckeyes will have to find room for in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. But that wasn’t the biggest reason to smile.

Myers remembers what was said about the Ohio State running game early in the season when tailbacks were having trouble getting through the line of scrimmage and the offensive line was getting little push.

So when the Buckeyes ran for nearly 400 yards — 9.1 yards per carry — Trey Sermon set the program’s single-game rushing record and the offensive line made Northwestern’s defensive front look like a JV squad in a Big Ten title win over a top-10 rush defense in the country, Myers had so much to smile about.

“Early on, there was a lot of questions about our running game,” Myers said in the postgame press conference. “And I have to tell you guys, it was the best feeling. I asked [Ohio State sports information director] Jerry [Emig] to get the stat for me, [Northwestern] allowed 3.7 yards per rushing attempt and we averaged over 9 on like 40 rushing attempts or something like that.

“I can’t even express how happy I am about that.”

Myers and the Buckeyes offensive line opened huge holes for Sermon to run free to the secondary. And when he got there, Sermon ran through arm tackles and busted off big gains — six of more than 20 yards. The Ohio State offensive line, which didn’t make the cut for the Joe Moore Award for the top unit in the nation, helped Sermon break that rushing record. And they were proud to do it.

“I knew it was just a matter of time,” Myers said. “And man, did it feel good.”
 
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