COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio State Buckeyes have a quarterback who needs help and a running back eager to provide it. Justin Fields arrived after we saw the worst of J.K. Dobbins. Now the first-year quarterback and the Ohio State offense need the best from their junior running back. These definitions of worst don’t belong to us. They belong to Dobbins, who treated a sophomore season of 1,053 rushing yards and 10 touchdowns like he could scrape those stats off the bottom of his shoe. One of Ryan Day’s new go-to phrases as the Buckeyes coach is the only way to learn is through failure. In asking Dobbins about that, knowing what he said in the spring about how incredibly dissatisfied he was with his 2018, I said his sophomore season obviously hadn’t been a failure … but how would it make him better? “I think I needed last year,”…
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