COLUMBUS, Ohio — Josh Proctor isn’t playing the role for this Ohio State football team that most people expected. He’d spent the entire offseason penciled in as the starting single-high safety replacing Jordan Fuller. He took reps with the 2019 second team and showed flashes of being a playmaker. He was a former top 100 recruit — and the only OSU commit from Oklahoma in the modern era — going into his third season. A prime candidate to be another Buckeye to go from backup to All-American-level performer in a year. Instead, that role went to Marcus Hooker, and defensive coordinator Kerry Coombs had something else in mind for Proctor. “It wasn’t really the plan coming in as Coach Coombs came in,” Proctor said. “He kind of talked to me about multiple spots, but he basically sat me down and told me that he wanted me to learn every spot…
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