Ever since Justin Fields transferred into the Ohio State Buckeyes program, the belief was he’d be the starter. Especially after Tate Martell departed for Miami, and Matthew Baldwin transferred to TCU, it felt like a bonafide, bet-the-farm, guarantee that Fields was going to be QB1.
We saw flashes of what he could at the spring game, and while it wasn’t the greatest of performances, we got an idea of what was possible. But, when spring concluded, he wasn’t named the starter.
Combine that with Gunnar Hoak arriving from Kentucky, and you have murmurs about whether or not there’s a legitimate QB battle taking place in Columbus.