October 26, 2024

Ohio State football’s vision for Sonny Styles coming into focus during ‘streamlined’ spring

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Other than the identity of the starting quarterback, one question has loomed over the first half of Ohio State football’s spring practice season. © Nathan Baird/cleveland.com/TNS Ohio State safety Sonny Styles speaks to reporters after a spring practice inside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center on March 30, 2023. Actually, two questions about one player. Will the Buckeyes be able to keep Sonny Styles off the field in his second season, and when he plays, where will he line up? Styles says those questions do not dominate his own thinking this spring. Neither his former status as a top-20 prospect nor his flashes of talent as a young-for-his-class freshman launched him past the need for real improvement in his first spring in the program. The Buckeye coaches, though, are working on their answers. Styles has predominantly worked as the second-string bandit in the three-safety alignment this spring. That…

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