COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohio State coach Urban Meyer doesn’t waste a lot of time thinking about kickers, but even he had to admit that Tyler Durbin is a pretty cool story. A walk-on kicker who played in his first football game at any level last Saturday, Durbin got the start and was perfect converting 11 extra points. He buried half of his dozen kickoffs in the end zone for touchbacks, and even made a tackle. Ohio State named him special teams player of the week. “I don’t know where the hell he came from,” Meyer said this week. And he was only half kidding. Meyer had never met Durbin until the coach saw him booming punts in training camp a few weeks ago, walked over and introduced himself. The former collegiate soccer player kicked a 62-yard field goal in practice and won the starting job after veteran kicker Sean Nuernberger was sidelined with a groin injury. A Virginia native, Durbin, 22, played soccer for two years at James Madison University but left because the school didn’t have the civil engineering program he wanted. That’s when he decided to give kicking a football a try. “I had thought about trying…
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