COLUMBUS, Ohio — What kept Johnnie Dixon at Ohio State? “I was a foot out the door,” the junior receiver said Thursday, his bad knees leading him that way. Three years, fourteen games, seven catches. So when the Buckeyes 2016 season ended at the Fiesta Bowl, Dixon thought his time playing football had ended, too. The No. 76 recruit in the nation in the Class of 2014 out of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., would go down as another talent derailed by injury, his spot on the roster ready to be filled by another 2017 recruit. But one part of his daily routine gave Dixon a reason to hang on. “I talked to Parris every day.” The No. 140 recruit in that Class of 2014 from St. Vincent-St. Mary, Akron’s Parris Campbell, had been shown around by Dixon on a recruiting visit. Almost four years later, Campbell is Ohio State’s starting…
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