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Tate: Offensive line questions slowly disappearing

The shoulder injury that incapacitated senior tackle Simon Cvijanovic at Ohio State on Nov. 1 wasn’t entirely detrimental to the 2015 team.

It might seem so because Cvijanovic’s Twitter rant went viral as he claimed coaches “tried to rush him back into action ... before he could do a simple pushup.”

For clarification, this May eruption came after Cvijanovic left the team and withdrew from school. He was allowed to re-enroll and graduate via a medically related academic scholarship in the spring, but became upset in part because, as a non-student and non-member of the team, he wasn’t invited to the Heart of Dallas Bowl on Dec.