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2022 PRESEASON WALTER CAMP PLAYER OF YEAR PLAYER TO WATCH: Jaxson Smith-Njigba, WR, junior, Ohio State,...Coming off a fabulous 2021 season when he led Ohio State with school-record totals of 95 receptions and 1,606 receiving yards...on a team that also featured first-round NFL Draft picks Garrett Wilson (No. 10 overall to the Jets) and Chris Olave (No. 11 overall to New Orleans)...Broke 20-year-old Big Ten receiving yards record (1,545 yards in 2001 by Lee Evan, Wisconsin) with his 1,606 receiving yards in 2021...95 receptions ranks fifth-most in Big Ten history. - Ohio State Football

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WR *Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Ohio State
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08/02/22 - *Paris Johnson Jr., rJr/2023, Ohio State, 6-6, 313 (DS#1 OT) + More +

2022 PRESEASON OUTLAND TROPHY WATCHLIST: OT Paris Johnson Jr., Ohio State,...Johnson Jr. started all 13 games at right guard in 2021 but will move over to tackle in 2022...Earned second-team all-Big Ten honors in 2021 by the conference coaches, third-team by the media...Is a veteran of 18 games played and 13 starts...In 2021, helped Ohio State's offense rank No. 1 in the nation in total offense (561.5) and scoring offense (45/7). - Ohio State Football

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OT *Paris Johnson Jr., Ohio State
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08/02/22 - Dawand Jones, Sr/2023, Ohio State, 6-8, 374 (DS#5 OT) + More +

2022 PRESEASON OUTLAND TROPHY WATCHLIST: OT Dawand Jones, Ohio State,...Jones is a veteran of 28 games played, including 14 starting assignments at right tackle...Played 788 snaps on offense in 2021 to rank third among all players on the team in offensive/defensive snaps... Helped Ohio State's offense rank No. 1 in the nation in total offense (561.5) and scoring offense (45/7)...Ohio State's offense also ranked in the Top 5 nationally in 2021 in passing (3rd; 380.9), passing efficiency (2nd; 182.3) and third down conversions (2nd; 52 pct.). - Ohio State Football

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OT Dawand Jones, Ohio State
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07/31/22 - *Ronnie Hickman, rJr/2023, Ohio State, 6-1, 209 (DS#6 FS) + More +

2022 PRESEASON BRONKO NAGURSKI TROPHY WATCHLIST: S Ronnie Hickman, Ohio State,...Ronnie, whose nickname is “Rocket”, is a senior academically, is in his fourth year with the program and has three seasons of eligibility...He is majoring in human development and family sciences...Has played in 18 games and started 13 times, with all of his starts coming in 2021...Was one of, if not the, top defensive players on the team in 2021 and was named second-team all-Big Ten by the coaches and third-team by the media...Led the team in tackles with 100, including 54 solo stops, and in interceptions with two...Is the first Buckeye in six years with 100 or more tackles in a season (Raekwon McMillan, 102 in 2015). - Ohio State Football

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FS *Ronnie Hickman, Ohio State
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07/31/22 - Zach Harrison, Sr/2023, Ohio State, 6-6, 269 (DS#10 DE) + More +

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 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

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DE Zach Harrison, Ohio State
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07/30/22 - Dawand Jones, Sr/2023, Ohio State, 6-8, 374 (DS#5 OT) + More +

C.J. Stroud seems like he wants to set up a basketball game between Ohio State football and the Buckeyes' men's basketball team. "I honestly think that if we played like football vs. our basketball team, it would be close," the Ohio State quarterback said at Big Ten media days Wednesday. "I think we would win." Starting by talking about the toughness of his offensive line heading into the 2022 season, talking about the development of players like Paris Johnson Jr. and Donovan Jackson, Stroud turned his focus to Dawand Jones: the Buckeyes' projected starter at right tackle heading into the 2022 season opener.

Dawand Jones looked every bit the Marion County Player of the Year in leading the Giants past No. 2 LC in Saturday's regional semifinal at Southport. "Jones, a 6-foot-8, 350-pound offensive lineman out of Indianapolis, is a player the Ohio State quarterback continues to be floored by. "I love Dawand, man. He's the biggest kid you'll know, but he's a great dude. One of the best athletes I have ever met in my life," Stroud said. "He could play basketball, but his ability, his footwork and his ability to use his size not against him, but for him, it's been amazing just to see the laws of gravity, you know what I mean?" Stroud called Jones the "most polished basketball player" on the Ohio State football team, averaging 17 points and nine rebounds per game at Ben Davis High School and earning several Division 1 offers. - Columbus Dispatch

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OT Dawand Jones, Ohio State
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07/30/22 - *Ronnie Hickman, rJr/2023, Ohio State, 6-1, 209 (DS#6 FS) + More +

Ryan Day expects more than improvement from Ohio State football's defense this season - and he name-dropped one of the best squads in program history to emphasize his point. Day set the goal of a Top 10 defense Wednesday at Big Ten Media Days. He doubled down on that standard later, and reiterated that it starts up front with stopping the run - the Achilles heel that ruined the Buckeyes' playoff bid last season. "A lot of it has to do with technique, a lot of it has to do with scheme, and a lot of it has to do with toughness," Day said. Day compared the current defense to the one that led OSU to a playoff berth in 2019.

That team also installed a new defense under a new coordinator. It benefited from players who gained experience the year before as young players forced into bigger roles. Chase Young and Jeff Okudah headlined a defense that led the nation in yards allowed per play and ranked fourth in points allowed per game. Those players, though, were third-year stars on the verge of being the No. 2 and 3 picks in the NFL Draft. The 2022 Ohio State defense will rely more on second-year players who may be further removed from their ceilings. - Cleveland Plain Dealer

(DS#6 FS) rJr/2023

FS *Ronnie Hickman, Ohio State
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07/29/22 - Lathan Ransom, rSr/2025, Ohio State, 6-0, 203 (DS#3 SS) + More +

Ohio State football's new safety driven defense under Jim Knowles should have a key contributor available to start the season. Ryan Day said Wednesday that Lathan Ransom should have a mostly full preseason and is expected to be available to start the season. Day said Ransom, who broke his left leg in the Rose Bowl, may not participate in early team drills but is on schedule to play for the Sept. 3 season opener against Notre Dame.

Ransom suffered a broken left leg while covering a kickoff return in the second quarter of the Rose Bowl against Utah last Jan. 1. He underwent surgery two days later and missed all of spring practice. At the time of the injury. Day compared it to the broken leg suffered by safety Josh Proctor during the Sept. 11 loss to Oregon. Proctor was able to return for part of spring practice, but was a limited participant. Ransom totaled 38 tackles with five pass breakups and one sack as a redshirt freshman. He was the first cover safety into the Rose Bowl with usual starter Marcus Williamson unavailable. - Columbus Dispatch

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SS Lathan Ransom, Ohio State
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07/29/22 - TreVeyon Henderson, Sr/2025, Ohio State, 5-10, 202 (DS#4 RB) + More +

Ohio State has sold out its most high-profile games for the upcoming football season. In his news conference at Big Ten media days on Wednesday, coach Ryan Day said both the season opener against Notre Dame on Labor Day weekend and the regular-season finale versus archrival Michigan two months later are sellouts. "There's been a lot of excitement around that," Day said, "and around this team." Ticket sales have picked after attendance declined last fall and was restricted in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Ohio State's average attendance at the Horseshoe in 2021 was 96,756, the lowest for a season in which spectators were permitted in two decades. The school sold 53,606 season tickets to the general public, faculty and staff for this year, the highest since 2017. The anticipation is especially high for both of the matchups against the Irish and Wolverines. Notre Dame has only visited Columbus twice in its history, and The Game has not been held at Ohio Stadium since 2018. - Columbus Dispatch

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RB TreVeyon Henderson, Ohio State
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07/28/22 - *C.J. Stroud, rSo/2023, Ohio State, 6-3, 214 (DS#1 QB) + More +

C.J. Stroud closed 2021 with an explosive Rose Bowl performance that backed up his selection as Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year. He opens 2022 as the favorite to repeat that award. Stroud received 32 of 35 first-place votes for preseason offensive player of the year in the 12th annual cleveland.com preseason Big Ten football poll. Jaxon Smith-Njibga, Stroud's top returning receiver who broke the Big Ten single-season record for receiving yards last season, landed two first-place votes. He edged Wisconsin running back Braelon Allen by five points for second place.

Allen appeared on four more ballots, but received no first-place votes. Maryland quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa received the other first-place vote. Stroud received two first-place votes in last year's poll despite not yet being named OSU's starter at the time. He went on to become a Heisman Trophy finalist after throwing for 4,435 yards and 44 touchdowns. That included five games of 400 or more yards and five games with four or more touchdowns without an interception. - Cleveland Plain Dealer

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QB *C.J. Stroud, Ohio State
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07/28/22 - *Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Jr/2023, Ohio State, 6-1, 196 (DS#1 WR) + More +

For the first time in five years, Ohio State football does not enter the season as the defending Big Ten champion. Another streak continues, though, as the Buckeyes remain the favorite to reclaim their crown. Per 36 voters in the 12th annual cleveland.com preseason Big Ten football poll, OSU was the unanimous choice to win both the East Division and the conference championship game in Indianapolis. Ohio State is the first unanimous preseason favorite since 2015, when it was also picked to win the league as the defending national champion. This is the third straight season Ohio State was picked to win the league. It followed through in 2020, but a loss to Michigan in the 2021 regular-season finale ended a four-year run as champion. Quarterback C.J. Stroud was the clear pick for preseason offensive player of the year, and receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba finished second. Four Buckeyes received preseason defensive player of the year votes. - Cleveland Plain Dealer

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WR *Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Ohio State
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07/28/22 - *C.J. Stroud, rSo/2023, Ohio State, 6-3, 214 (DS#1 QB) + More +

Expectations remain high for Ohio State football heading into the 2022 season. As fall camp looms for the Buckeyes, ESPN is raising expectations even higher. ESPN's College Football Power Index gives the Buckeyes a 32.1% chance to win out the 2022 season, the highest percentage of any team in college football. The Buckeyes' chances are 11.2% higher than second-place Georgia.

Ohio State is the only team in the Big Ten with more than a 2% chance of finishing the 2022 season undefeated, with Michigan coming in at 1.7% with 9.5 projected wins, while Michigan State and Penn State each have a 0.1% chance of finishing undefeated, coming in with eight projected wins each. The Buckeyes also have more than a 82.9% chance of beating each team on is regular-season schedule, with the lowest percentage coming on the road against the Nittany Lions Oct. 29. Per ESPN's football power index, Ohio State has an 84.8% chance of beating Michigan at home Nov. 26, higher than the Buckeyes' home matchup against Notre Dame and road matchups against the Penn State and Michigan State. - Columbus Dispatch

(DS#1 QB) rSo/2023

QB *C.J. Stroud, Ohio State
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07/28/22 - Denzel Burke, Sr/2025, Ohio State, 5-11, 186 (DS#9 CB) + More +

2022 PRESEASON JIM THORPE AWARD WATCHLIST: Denzel Burke, Ohio State, So.,...Burke (6-1, 190) is a second-year Buckeye who is coming off an outstanding true freshman campaign when he started all 13 games, led the team with 13 total passes defensed and recorded 36 total tackles, including 28 solo stops. Named a freshman All-American by ESPN, The Athletic and 247Sports; Earned third-team all-Big Ten Conference honors. He is the first Ohio State true freshman to start the season opener on defense since Andy Katzenmoyer in 1996. His first collegiate interception was a "pick-6" vs Rutgers of 23 yards. - Ohio State Football

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CB Denzel Burke, Ohio State
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07/28/22 - *Ronnie Hickman, rJr/2023, Ohio State, 6-1, 209 (DS#6 FS) + More +

2022 PRESEASON JIM THORPE AWARD WATCHLIST: Ronnie Hickman, Ohio State, Jr.,...According to Ohio State online media, safety Rocket Ronnie Hickman (6-1, 205) is a senior academically, is in his fourth year with the program and has three seasons of eligibility. You see, he redshirted in 2019 as a true freshman while rehabbing a shoulder that he hurt in his senior year of high school. He then played in the first five games in 2020 as a special teams hellion before getting hurt again. Avoiding the confusing math, Draft Scout just lists him as a junior. Thus far, he has played in 18 games and started 13 times, with all of his starts coming in 2021 and was one of, if not the, top defensive players on the team in 2021 and was named second-team all-Big Ten by the coaches and third-team by the media. He led the team in tackles with 100, including 54 solo stops, and in interceptions with two. Is the first Buckeye in six years with 100 or more tackles in a season (Raekwon McMillan, 102 in 2015). - Ohio State Football

(DS#6 FS) rJr/2023

FS *Ronnie Hickman, Ohio State
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07/28/22 - Noah Ruggles, rSr/2023, Ohio State, 6-2, 190 (DS#999 K) + More +

2022 PRESEASON LOU GROZA AWARD WATCH LIST: Noah Ruggles - Ohio State, Class: Senior - Hometown: Odessa, Florida,...A finalist for the 2021 Groza Award, Ruggles capped both the most accurate and highest-scoring kicking season in Ohio State history with a last-second Rose Bowl winner. He went 4-for-4 on field goals at home against Penn State and then on the road at Nebraska, becoming the first Buckeye to turn the feat in consecutive games. - Lou Groza Award

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K Noah Ruggles, Ohio State
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