Football is back, and each member of the No. 2-ranked 2017 Ohio State recruiting class is on campus in Columbus. With their arrival comes the question that pops up every year: Which freshmen will play for the Buckeyes this fall? If you ask Urban Meyer, pretty much every year, he’ll give you the same answer. “I don’t want to redshirt. It’s not our plan,” Meyer said after signing day, 2016. “We don’t recruit you and say let’s sit them down for a while. We want to play them immediately.” That is not really the way it works, though — especially not at Ohio State. As every recruiting class arrives on campus, two dozen big-time prospects take their shot at scarlet and gray stardom, meaning at any one point there will be somewhere between 60 and 72 players ahead of the new class. It’s not easy to crack the lineup when you…
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