At the beginning of September, before he left Columbus to return to his home state of Florida, Shaun Wade felt he received a sign that it was time to take the next step in his life.
“A green grasshopper was at my door when I woke up that morning, when I came back he was there. The next morning, I woke up, and the grasshopper was at my door, and when I looked it up, it just meant like it’s time to move on in life, and it was a sign from God, for real,” Wade said.
At that moment, Wade started coming to the realization that it might be time for him to leave Ohio State and declare for the 2021 NFL draft, and he officially made that decision on Monday, when he announced he was opting out of the 2020 college football season and shifting his attention to focus on his professional career, joining Wyatt Davis as the second Buckeye to make that decision in a four-day span.