COLUMBUS, Ohio — Evan Pryor at first did not realize the significance when he executed a wheel route, took a hit and bounced back up in Ohio State football’s second preseason practice. Running backs coach Tony Alford explained it to the third-year back in the next huddle. About 50 weeks earlier, Pryor attempted essentially the same play in a preseason practice. That day, he ruptured the patellar tendon in his left knee, ending his season before it started and halting the progress made in the preceding months. When Pryor walked off the field Friday, healthy and in the end stages of recovery from that trauma, he began to feel like the player he was before the injury. He admits his first time back he was “scared out of my pants.” The first few practices of preseason camp lifted “a huge, huge weight off my shoulders.” Recommended Buckeyes stories…
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