COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State football quarterback Justin Fields was not 100 percent healthy in the Buckeyes’ three biggest games of the season. With 2:23 left in the fourth quarter of a Penn State game that OSU led by 11 points, head coach Ryan Day called a pass play on fourth and 5. The result of that play led to what Fields would later describe as a sprained left MCL. One week later he aggravated that injury in a win over Michigan, though he’d return and throw a 30-yard touchdown pass to Garrett Wilson seven plays later. But Fields was never the same after the initial injury against Penn State as the knee brace — whether the smaller one or more bulky one that he said he wasn’t a fan of on multiple occasions — limited the mobility that made him a dual threat. It’s also the reason he was…
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