January 12, 2025

Ryan Day really wants you to believe Ohio State is set for a quarterback competition

CHICAGO — Gunnar Hoak has a chance. Just as good a chance to start at quarterback as Justin Fields, Ohio State’s celebrated transfer quarterback from Georgia. First-year coach Ryan Day really wants you to believe that. So much so that he spent a large portion of time at the 2019 Big Ten Media Days on Thursday trying to convince the media — for starters — that nothing is decided. “It’s a competition,” he told CBS Sports. “Gunnar Hoak is not going to give anything away.” Your next question should absolutely be: Who in Buckeye Heaven is Gunnar Hoak? He is a 6-foot-4 graduate transfer from Kentucky who has all of 26 career passes to his credit. That’s only 13 fewer passes than Fields has to his name after a freshman season backing up Jake Fromm at Georgia in 2018. That’s about the only category where the two appear even. Fields…

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