COLUMBUS, Ohio — Carson Hinzman could always pick things up quickly, from classwork to learning the guitar to — apparently — surging up the Ohio State football depth chart. © David Petkiewicz cleveland.com/cleveland.com/TNS Carson Hinzman, 4-star OL, of Saint Croix Central High School in Wisconsin. St. Croix Central High School coach John Tackmann saw it first hand when he accompanied the Wisconsin farm boy on his recruiting visit to Iowa. Hawkeye coaches gave Hinzman a small hand-held white board on which to take notes about what they were drawing up on two big white boards. Then they took him in the next room and quizzed him. “They were throwing things at him he’d never seen before — inside zone, outside zone, concepts we don’t run in our scheme — and he picked it up right away,” Tackmann said. Recommended Buckeyes stories Last spring, Hinzman completed his senior year at St.…
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