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Apr. 14—By Jim Naveau
jnaveau@limanews.com
COLUMBUS — Spring football games, Ohio State’s included, probably should come with warning labels.
Something like, “Warning: What you see in April is not necessarily what you will see in September, October, November, December, and January.”
Fans want specifics but generalities are what most spring games deliver.
Applying that standard to Ohio State’s spring game on Saturday, in general, the Buckeyes appeared to have a lot of talent and depth at several positions with the defensive backfield, the wide receivers and the defensive linemen at the top of that list.
But there were no specifics to be found about the two areas of greatest curiosity for the 80,012 fans who watched the spring game at Ohio Stadium.
The two major areas that are still being sorted out are the quarterback situation and the offensive line, which were also the two biggest areas of concern in the preseason and during the season last year. They’ll continue to be studied between now and the season opener Aug. 31 against Akron.
When OSU coach Ryan Day was asked how he felt about his quarterbacks after the spring game he said, “I wouldn’t say that I’m going to make any declarations right now but we’ll look at the film and see what it looks like and go from there. But I don’t have much to say about it right now.”
He assessed the offensive line this way: “I don’t think we’re there right now. The goal is to find our best five.”
It’s possible OSU could look for offensive line talent in the transfer portal when it reopens next week.
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The spring game was played in an offense-against-defense format, with the defense getting points for third down stops, defensive scores, negative plays and turnovers. The offense was declared the winner of the game by a 34-33 score.
Five quarterbacks played and combined for only…
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Publish date : 2024-04-14 22:19:00
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