COLUMBUS, Ohio — They call it Summit Hill — a stretch of city street about 100 meters long that runs through Jashon Cornell’s neighborhood in Minneapolis. The recent Ohio State defensive tackle has staked his professional future on that hill this spring. The 6-3, 285-pound Cornell sprints up the hill, walks back down to the bottom, then sprints up again — repeating the process until he can’t continue. Cornell expected to spend his spring in Columbus, working out at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center in preparation for OSU’s Pro Day and the NFL Draft. Then the coronavirus pandemic dominoes began to fall — closing the Woody, closing the gyms in the Twin Cities back home, ultimately canceling Pro Day. Unconventional times called for unconventional NFL Draft preparation, so Cornell hit the streets. “I have to keep working, keep grinding, keep finding a way to get better,” Cornell said. “When the…
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