While James Laurinaitis is in his first year on Ohio State’s coaching staff and just his second year in coaching overall, he needed little introduction when the Buckeyes hired him as a graduate assistant linebackers coach in January. After all, Laurinaitis is one of the greatest linebackers in Ohio State history. He’s one of only eight players in program history to be named a first-team All-American in three different seasons, and he went on to play in the NFL for eight years. “Whenever I first heard he was coming in, I looked at his résumé and it’s freaking ridiculous, like something out of a movie,” Steele Chambers said this spring. Given that, Laurinaitis’ words have carried a lot of weight for Ohio State’s linebackers in their first offseason being coached by him. Because Laurinaitis actually played the position at Ohio State and in the NFL, Chambers indicated recently that Laurinaitis’…
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