It’s not always the stars who determine the outcome of a season for a football team. Today we take a look at six players who can make or break Ohio State’s 2023 campaign.
Marvin Harrison Jr., Emeka Egbuka, Tommy Eichenberg and J.T. Tuimoloau are all nationally recognized names that are projected to have big years in 2023. So long as they stay healthy, each will almost certainly make a big impact at various points in the season.
Beyond that, it’s a test of the abilities of whoever wins the job and Day’s ability to produce quarterbacks. He developed three consecutive Heisman Trophy finalists and first-round NFL draft picks at the position prior to this year in C.J. Stroud, Justin Fields and the late Dwayne Haskins. “I think he's had some really good practices and he's shown that he can be the starting left tackle,” Day said. “He has not won that job yet. But he has shown traits that make us believe he can be that guy.”
While Frye lauded Fryar in the spring and summer, saying his “confidence has grown,” Day was noncommittal Monday when asked whether Fryar would be the starting right tackle come Week 1. Freshman Luke Montgomery is already making a push for playing time and redshirt freshman Tegra Tshabola is also competing for a starting job, per Day. Fryar was the first-team left tackle during spring practice prior to Simmons’ arrival.
“We remind ourselves of that every day,” Denzel Burke said Thursday. “, that’s not our brand. We’re going to bring that back. It’s just about getting better every single day.” Burke’s trash-talking, physical style lends itself both to man coverage and to being a leader in the position room for the Buckeyes. Where he goes in terms of his quality of play, the room may very well follow.Speaking of the secondary, it was Ohio State’s safeties that gave up a glut of big plays in the team’s two most important games to close the season last year against Michigan and Georgia.
“Ja’Had is more of a high safety,” Knowles said. “We experimented with him on the slot, and that’s part of learning the system, it’s good for safeties to play different positions early. But he’s more of a high safety.”“Ja’Had, being a transfer, has just been a very coachable player,” Knowles said. “He’s one of those guys, you can say something to him, correct it, and he corrects it immediately on the field. That’s rare. His learning and processing of our system has been great.
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