SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — J.T. Barrett was in the process of finishing a long talk with his father, when the elder Barrett said a phrase he'd repeated many times before. Finally, it began to resonate with the Ohio State quarterback who failed to win back his job after enduring a broken ankle.
"My dad would talk to me all the time, 'How about you have fun?'" Barrett said Tuesday.
Barrett lost the Ohio State starting quarterback job to Cardale Jones out of fall camp in August, still recovering from the injury he suffered nine months earlier.