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S Lathan Ransom (All B1G, All-American)

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The story of Lathan Ransom’s 2022 season turned on a dime.

His ascension as a starter in the Buckeye secondary early in the season was made all the more impressive by a lightning-fast turnaround from a leg fracture suffered in the final game of the 2021 campaign. Still, Ransom wasn’t content only to get back on the field. The third-year safety emerged as a star performer for Jim Knowles’ defense, and entering the final month of the regular season, Ransom was named a semifinalist for the Jim Thorpe Award. With a strong end to the year, he might have been off to the NFL.
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“When you're playing good, you're at the top of the world. When you’re making bad plays, you're at the bottom of the world. And I mean, I use that as fuel,” Ransom said Thursday. “I use that as fuel to get better every day. So that's really what I do. … I'm here because I want to improve on things that I wasn't, maybe – I didn't like the way I played last year. I mean, all types of things. I think I'm trying to improve my game all around. I'm trying to improve my game all around, trying to be the most consistent safety in the country. I mean, that's really what I want to do.”
 
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ScriptOhio said:


The story of Lathan Ransom’s 2022 season turned on a dime.

His ascension as a starter in the Buckeye secondary early in the season was made all the more impressive by a lightning-fast turnaround from a leg fracture suffered in the final game of the 2021 campaign. Still, Ransom wasn’t content only to get back on the field. The third-year safety emerged as a star performer for Jim Knowles’ defense, and entering the final month of the regular season, Ransom was named a semifinalist for the Jim Thorpe Award. With a strong end to the year, he might have been off to the NFL.
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“When you're playing good, you're at the top of the world. When you’re making bad plays, you're at the bottom of the world. And I mean, I use that as fuel,” Ransom said Thursday. “I use that as fuel to get better every day. So that's really what I do. … I'm here because I want to improve on things that I wasn't, maybe – I didn't like the way I played last year. I mean, all types of things. I think I'm trying to improve my game all around. I'm trying to improve my game all around, trying to be the most consistent safety in the country. I mean, that's really what I want to do.”
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Ransom was an odd story to last season. He was tearing it up all season and looking like the kid on film I saw in high school back at Bishop Gorman. Last two games he just flat out played poorly but it had nothing to do with talent level. DB is a difficult position to play and everyone has bad games, just have to use it to fuel you in the future like he said. Had a pretty similar thing happen my junior year at CB and came back to have a great senior year.

Hoping Lathan comes back and has a great last campaign here, not just for the team but for him personally knowing how hard it can be with all the criticism when you mess up in coverage. The media and fans will forget all the prior success and work product after one or two bad games, so hopefully he is tuning those people out and just working on improvement. Kid is talented and has a good head on his shoulders, so I have all the faith in the world that he will do so.
 
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OHIO STATE PLAYERS ON PRESEASON WATCH LISTS​

  • WR Marvin Harrison Jr.: Maxwell Award, Biletnikoff Award
  • WR Emeka Egbuka: Maxwell Award, Biletnikoff Award, Paul Hornung Award
  • G Donovan Jackson: Outland Trophy
  • G Matt Jones: Outland Trophy
  • DT Mike Hall Jr.: Outland Trophy
  • DE JT Tuimoloau: Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Lott IMPACT Trophy
  • LB Tommy Eichenberg: Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Lott IMPACT Trophy
  • S Lathan Ransom: Bronko Nagurski Trophy
  • P Jesse Mirco: Ray Guy Award
  • TE Cade Stover: Mackey Award
 
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I want Lathan and/or Chambers spying #3 every play...both are athletic and big enough to get him to the ground. Ransom may be the most important piece of the defense for the Maryland game and after the ND game, he looks primed for the challenge.

Ransom is having a hell of a year so far and skip to the 6:20 mark of that video where he says most games they were a great defense, but it doesn't matter if you don't do it the whole season when it matters. Kid is a leader and just gets it, one of my favorites on the team since the time we offered him as a recruit up to present day.
 
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RB07OSU said:
I want Lathan and/or Chambers spying #3 every play...both are athletic and big enough to get him to the ground. Ransom may be the most important piece of the defense for the Maryland game and after the ND game, he looks primed for the challenge.

Ransom is having a hell of a year so far and skip to the 6:20 mark of that video where he says most games they were a great defense, but it doesn't matter if you don't do it the whole season when it matters. Kid is a leader and just gets it, one of my favorites on the team since the time we offered him as a recruit up to present day.
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I kinda want to see Styles vs Taulia.
 
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kujirakira said:
I kinda want to see Styles vs Taulia.
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Actually my dad threw that out there and he was right, Sonny is the man for that job if healthy. I just haven't seen him much on the field the last couple of games, maybe I'm just missing it. I hope he's full go after a bye week, go get it Sonny. And Ransom is going to be critical regardless.
 
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