COLUMBUS — Mitchell Melton is a Buckeye, and his family is back home in Ohio. That means being only an hour drive from his parents and the occasional opportunity to mow his grandpa’s grass on a hot summer day in Greene County. ExploreA look at where the Buckeyes stand on some key issues midway through August “We had a projects to do around his house, I think actually like a month ago,” Melton said Thursday with a smile. “I had to come around and mow his lawn with my dad and just help him out.” It turns out everyone moving from Maryland to Ohio has afforded Melton a chance to learn more about his dad, too. “He’s a more of a legend than I thought,” Mitchell said of his father, Jeff, who was a 6-foot-2, 205-pound running back at Cedarville High School in the early 1980s before playing at Miami…
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