October 10, 2024

C.J. Stroud Revealed Ohio State’s QB Move That Made Him Feel ‘Disrespected’

© Provided by Sports Illustrated New Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud said in a pre-draft interview with Uninterrupted’s The Shop that he felt “disrespected” when Ohio State brought in five-star quarterback Quinn Ewers in the fall of 2021. Ewers, who was ranked as the No. 1 player in the high school class of 2022, reclassified up one year to join the Buckeyes early in fall camp ahead of the ’21 season. That move didn’t sit well with Stroud, who already had sat behind Justin Fields in the 2020 season. “I kind of felt disrespected. I didn’t like that,” Stroud admitted. Stroud had been penciled in as the starter for the ’21 season after Fields departed for the NFL, but adding Ewers to the mix during the team’s fall camp could have changed things. And to make matters worse, Stroud said the Ohio State coaching staff didn’t let him know about Ewers’s impending arrival until “the…

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