Smart move: Balancing Curtis Samuel's workload key in Ohio State's H-back role

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The fights were always good-natured, but there was obviously a legitimate reason Urban Meyer’s assistants were jockeying for the services of Ohio State’s most explosive playmaker.

The wide receivers in “Zone 6” saw the kind of potential a year ago that the kid had after he moved from running back to wideout. And in the meeting room of the “Tote Nation,” the tailbacks wanted to bring him home after seeing the threat he posed seemingly every time the football was simply handed to him.

But Meyer let the two groups know in no uncertain terms they would have to share Curtis Samuel's talents, which the junior has joked makes him the sole member of the “Tote 6” position unit. And…