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Zach Harrison, DE, Ohio State
Selected: Round 3, Pick 12, Overall Pick 75 by Falcons
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Name: Zach Harrison (+) Coming off Jan 2023 Hamstring
College: Ohio State
Number: 9
School Bio/Stats Link: HERE
Height: 6-6 Weight: 269
Position: Pos2:
Class/Draft Year: Sr/2023
40 Low: 4.62 40 Time: 4.72 40 High: 4.80
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Data Scout Notes: X-2-4/Has not lived up to 5* "Next Chase Young" Hype/*Tester/12GP-34TT-8TFL-4SK in 21 2022: 2ndC...PBednarik/PLombardi/PNagurski/PLott...2021: 3rdC...PNagurski/PBednarik/PLott...2020: 2ndC
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Combine Invite: Yes
Height: 6054
Weight: 269
Zybek PD3X AKA "Official"
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Dates: 03/22/23
Hand: 10 Arm: 36 1/4
Wingspan: 85 1/2
Height: 6054
Weight: 269
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Vertical Jump: 34 1/2
Broad Jump: 10'03"
20 Yrd Shuttle: 4.66
3-Cone Drill: 7.33
-5 LBs/No 40s-Hamstring
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Zach Harrison, Ohio State, Player News
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2022 ALL-BIG TEN FOOTBALL SECOND TEAM (COACHES): DL Zach Harrison, Ohio State,...Harrison, a fourth-year senior from Olentangy, leads all Ohio State defensive linemen with 30 tackles and with six quarterback pressures. He has 6.5 tackles-for-loss (26 yar ds) and three sacks, in addition to four pass break-ups and three forced fumbles. He was named first-team by the media. - Ohio State Football
(DS#10 DE) Sr/2023  DE Zach Harrison, Ohio State
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Everybody can't turn themselves in three years into a top-five pick the same way Chase Young and Nick and Joey Bosa did, yet they are the measuring stick for success. Those three are the outliers as generational talents in college football who just so ha ppened to all be stacked back-to-back-to-back in Columbus. It took a while for Harrison to come to terms with that and stop pressuring himself to be something he's not. He doesn't have to be like any of those three to be an elite edge rusher for OSU. Now that he's figured that out, he's starting to tap into that which is helping elevate the defense. "It's definitely a process," Harrison said. "I definitely feel like I've come into myself more as a man, as a person and as a player. I've definitely mature d a bunch and that's just part of realizing that everybody's journey is different. Not everybody comes into college is three-and-out (and) goes No. 2 overall. That's not common. I just put one foot in front of the other and just keep playing. "This year, I've learned this is how I rush, and these are the things I can do well," Harrison said. "I stopped trying to be somebody else and just play how I play." Harrison's performance against Iowa feels like a turning point in a career that has been underrated at times because his sack numbers haven't been eye-popping the way we've grown accustomed to seeing.Both of his tackles resulted in a loss of yardage, and one of them was a strip sack. Then he tipped a pass at the line of scrimmage, which paved t he way for Tanner McCalister's second interception of the afternoon. He's taken the long road to maximize his natural talent, but it seems as if Harrison has finally tapped into the best version of himself. He may be turning himself into a first-round NF L Draft pick in the process while leading a unit that's getting back to dictating the line of scrimmage in a way it hasn't consistently done since 2019. "Zach's playing some of his best football right now, and our defensive line, they're playing with an edge," Day said. "You can feel it out there. You can feel how fast they're playing, but Zach has really come along. He's practiced really well, his leadership's been good, and I think you guys would agree is by playing his best football right now." - Cle veland Plain Dealer
(DS#10 DE) Sr/2023 DE Zach Harrison, Ohio State
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ESPN TOP 100 PRESEASON 2022 CFB PLAYERS (Selected Aug. 17): No. 88. Zach Harrison, DE, Ohio State, Senior. Notable 2021 stats: 33 tackles (22 solo), 3 sacks. Last year's ranking: NR. Harrison had 33 tackles (22 solo) with eight TFLs and three sacks for O hio State during his junior year. With 33 games played and 14 starts, he's the most experienced player on the defensive line for the Buckeyes. Harrison earned All-Big Ten second-team recognition last season. - ESPN.com
(DS#10 DE) Sr/2023 DE Zach Harrison, Ohio State
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Even without the title, Zach Harrison still views himself as a leader of Ohio State football's defensive line. The senior defensive end served as one of Ohio State's captains in 2021, along with defensive tackle Haskell Garrett, wide receiver Chris Olave , offensive tackle Thayer Munford, wide receiver Kamryn Babb and linebacker Teradja Mitchell. Now, heading into the 2022 season, Babb is the only returning captain for Ohio State despite both Harrison and Mitchell returning for another season. The redshi rt senior wide receiver and the team's 2022 Block O recipient joins defensive lineman Tyler Friday, linebacker Tommy Eichenberg, quarterback C.J. Stroud, tight end Cade Stover and safety Kourt Williams. Ohio State has not had a captain from a previous te am return and not been named a captain since Jordan Hall.The Buckeye running back was named a captain in Urban Meyer's first season as head coach in 2012, but had limited playing time that season after a knee injury, and was granted a fifth season with a medical redshirt. When Hall returned in 2013, Jack Mewhort, Christian Bryant, C.J. Barnett, Corey Linsley, Kenny Guiton and Corey Brown were Ohio State's captains. But Harrison's mentality as a leader has not shifted heading into his fourth seaso n with the Buckeyes. "They are not captains (just) because they were voted captains," Harrison said. "They are captains because they embody leadership and the program. I feel like just because my name wasn't voted captain, that I won't have a "C" on my s hort doesn't mean I'm not a head of the program. I know that guys are still looking up to me, so I have to maintain that standard regardless of whether I'm a captain or not." Heading into his fourth year with the program, Harrison said he's seen that men tality from Friday, who will be the defensive line's captain in his fifth year at Ohio State. - The Columbus Dispatch
(DS#10 DE) Sr/2023 DE Zach Harrison, Ohio State
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2022 PRESEASON ROTARY LOMBARDI AWARD WATCHLIST: Zach Harrison, Ohio State, Sr DE,...Harrison is the most experienced defensive end on the roster with 33 games played and 14 starting assignments...The current team leader with 17.5 tackles-for-loss and 9.5 quarterback sacks...A team captain in 2021 who had a fine year with 8.0 TFLs, 4.0 sacks, four pass break-ups, two forced fumbles and two quarterback hurries. - Ohio State Football
(DS#10 DE) Sr/2023 DE Zach Harrison, Ohio State
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Zach Harrison was a five-star recruit from Olentangy Orange who has steadily improved. He showed flashes of dominance last year as well as more overall consistency. Harrison led the team with eight tackles for loss. But if he's going to become elite he m ust have more than the four sacks he had in 2021. "He's had a really good offseason," Day said. "I'm really impressed with just the way he's going about his business. Looks awesome, so we're expecting a big year from Zach." - Columbus Dispatch
(DS#10 DE) Sr/2023 DE Zach Harrison, Ohio State
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2022 PRESEASON CHUCK BEDNARIK AWARD WATCH LIST: Zach Harrison, Ohio State, Senior DE,...The current team leader with 17.5 tackles-for-loss and 9.5 quarterback sacks...A team captain in 2021 who had a fine year with 8.0 TFLs, 4.0 sacks, four pass break-up s, two forced fumbles and two quarterback hurries...Started 11 games in 2021 and was named second-team all-Big Ten Conference. - Ohio State Football
(DS#10 DE) Sr/2023 DE Zach Harrison, Ohio State
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2022 PRESEASON BRONKO NAGURSKI TROPHY WATCHLIST: DE Zach Harrison, Ohio State,... Harrison is the most experienced defensive end on the roster with 33 games played and 14 starting assignments...The current team leader with 17.5 tackles-for-loss and 9.5 q uarterback sacks..A team captain in 2021 who had a fine year with 8.0 TFLs, 4.0 sacks, four pass break-ups, two forced fumbles and two quarterback hurries. - Ohio State Football
(DS#10 DE) Sr/2023 DE Zach Harrison, Ohio State
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2022 LOTT IMPACT TROPHY PRESEASON WATCH LIST: ZACH HARRISON, DE, Ohio State, Sr., 6-6, 272, Lewis Center, Ohio: On Watch List last year; All-Big Ten (second team); OSU Scholar Athlete; 17.5 career tackles for losses. - Lott IMPACT Trophy/The Pacific Club IMPACT Foundation
(DS#10 DE) Sr/2023 DE Zach Harrison, Ohio State
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"The Game" between Michigan and Ohio State will be a FOX Sports national broadcast and will kick off at noon on Nov. 27 at Michigan Stadium, the network announced Friday. Last season's Michigan-Ohio State game was canceled because COVID-19. This will be the first time since 2019 the teams will meet. The game at Ohio State last season was canceled because of a COVID-19 outbreak in the Michigan football program. That ended a streak of 103 consecutive meetings between the teams. The upcoming Michigan-Ohio State game will mark the 117th time they've played. The Buckeyes have won eight straight in the series. - Detroit News
(DS#10 DE) Sr/2023 DE Zach Harrison, Ohio State
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Zach Harrison may never live up to comparisons with the dominant Ohio State football defensive ends who preceded him. No shame in that. That list includes some of the greatest Buckeyes of all time and the best college football players of their era. Yet t o have a chance at that career - to achieve his own, singular legacy, as Harrison prefers to view it - he reached back to the example of one of his Rushmen ancestors. It wasn't the bodies Chase Young stacked up on the field, though. Harrison set out to e mulate the 2019 Heisman Trophy finalist as the practice warrior most of us never saw. "When I was a freshmen watching Chase, he made plays in practice that y'all never saw - and that correlates to games," Harrison said. "That's one thing that I took to h eart. Show up in practice, because it's not just going to show up on Saturdays."The sophomore year breakthroughs of Young -- and Joey and Nick Bosa before him -- as well as the lofty expectations Harrison carried as a top-15 national prospect, mad e his 2020 performance seem underwhelming to some. Harrison earned third team All-Big Ten honors from conference coaches while collecting 14 tackles (4.5 for loss) and two sacks in seven games. Not a bad year, but not the leap into greatness those previo us Buckeye defensive ends made in their second seasons. - Cleveland Plain Dealer
(DS#10 DE) Sr/2023 DE Zach Harrison, Ohio State
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Five-star defensive end with first-round NFL Draft potential in his second-year under Johnson. That's what Bosa was in 2017, and that's what Harrison is coming into this season. Both were trying to be the next name in what's a growing list of top-five dr aft picks Johnson has coached in Columbus and were coming off freshmen seasons that set them up to take off as sophomores. Ironically both suffered losses Fiesta Bowl losses to Clemson in the College Football playoff as well. Bosa was the best player in that room - and probably the Big Ten - even though he was the youngest player in the rotation. That might end up being the case with Harrison, who has the same expectations for his second year as the Bosas brothers and Young had before him. He's already on the five-star path, and the next step is solidifying himself as one of the country's best defensive players. At least that's what those three did. "Those guys that came before me, they're a bunch of great players," Harrison said. "There's a lot of exp ectation for me to do so-and-so numbers. Honestly, I don't really try to think about that. Every day at practice, I go out and get better, work on my technique." - Cleveland Plain Dealer
(DS#10 DE) Sr/2023 DE Zach Harrison, Ohio State
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Joey Bosa's record-breaking contract extension Tuesday night brought the football world's attention back to the defensive end factory Larry Johnson runs at Ohio State. One assumes the models still in the shop took notice as well. That includes Zach Harri son. The rising sophomore who came down State Road 315 from Olentangy Orange last as a top-15 national prospect hinted at bigger things that may soon be in his reach. In 2019, Harrison was one of the many Buckeye defensive linemen overshadowed by Chase Y oung's brilliance. So what do Harrison's freshman-year numbers mean by comparison? He played more snaps than any other defensive end except Young, which helps explain why he reached 24 tackles despite primarily being a backup.Yet he also showed so me ability to chase down opponents and make plays away from the trenches. The five tackles for loss and 3.5 sacks reflected solid production for a reserve. Those are the areas where Ohio State needs Harrison to step up and assert himself. The only return ing Buckeye with more sacks was linebacker Baron Browning, who tallied five but capitalized multiple times on blitzing off of Young's shoulder against understandably distracted opposing tackles. - Cleveland Plain Dealer
(DS#10 DE) Sr/2023 DE Zach Harrison, Ohio State
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