More than halfway through his second season at Ohio State, Julian Fleming has caught only 11 passes for 113 yards.
That’s not what anyone, including Fleming himself, was expecting when he arrived at Ohio State as the top-ranked wide receiver and No. 3 overall prospect in the 2020 recruiting class. Injuries and the COVID-19 pandemic, however, have set him back.
While Fleming played in all eight of Ohio State’s games in 2020, he was battling through a shoulder injury that had plagued him since high school, while the pandemic robbed him of the opportunity to have a full first offseason at Ohio State – which would have been crucial to his development after playing in a Wing-T offense in high school.