November 25, 2024

Ohio State spring game: Will the Urban Meyer-Kevin Wilson combo save Ohio State's offense?

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State receivers were running free in the secondary during the Buckeyes spring game Saturday, Ohio State quarterbacks were giving them a chance to make plays, and this looked like a plan coming together. “We’ve gotten in the ballpark where we’ve got catchable balls,” new offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson said. Catchable balls is progress. Ohio State completed six touchdown passes of between 18 and 44 yards on Saturday, which is the kind of thing you can do when the Buckeyes play all one-on-one man coverage, and the spring game defenders in that coverage are second- and third-teamers. That wasn’t Marshon Lattimore and Gareon Conley, who will be first-round NFL Draft picks in 12 days, or even projected 2017 starters Denzel Ward and Damon Arnette, defending those passes.  “We tried to work on it and you can take stats and skew it and make it look good or…

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