It’s been customary in recent history for Ohio State freshman quarterbacks to enroll in January, but Lincoln Kienholz strayed from that trend this year. Until this year, six of the last seven quarterbacks to sign with the Buckeyes out of high school – Devin Brown, Kyle McCord, Jack Miller, C.J. Stroud, Matthew Baldwin, Tate Martell – were all midyear enrollees. Aside from Quinn Ewers, who joined the Buckeyes in August 2021 after his reclassification, the last non-transfer scholarship quarterback to join Ohio State as a summer enrollee was Dwayne Haskins in 2016. Kienholz, however, chose to stay at T.F. Riggs High School for the entirety of his senior year, allowing the three-sport athlete to play his final season of high school basketball and win a state championship in baseball. Ohio State head coach Ryan Day and quarterbacks coach Corey Dennis were both supportive of that decision. “There’s pros to coming…
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