As part of its ongoing preseason college football coverage, Athlon Sports has published a list of the The Most Important Player on Every Big Ten Team in 2017. For Ohio State, there are a lot of talented players, but Athlon’s J.P. Scott was looking for “one guy who needs to show up every week and get his job done at the highest level in order for his team to have success.” In the case of the Buckeyes, that meant quarterback J.T. Barrett. Here is what Athlon wrote on Barrett: “The Buckeyes are going to be in the College Football Playoff discussion for most of the year once again, and Barrett is why. He’s the best dual-threat quarterback in the country not named Lamar Jackson and, truth be told, he might even be better than last year’s Heisman winner. Perhaps more so than any player in the country, Barrett’s performance will…
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