Well before the end of his junior season, Malik Harrison had already made up his mind. Even though an NFL team likely would have selected him in the draft this spring, he planned to return for one more year at Ohio State.
In the final games of the 2018 season, Harrison finally began to scratch his potential. The 6-foot-3, 240-pound specimen, who has enough athleticism to have thrived on the basketball court at Walnut Ridge, had 10 tackles in the Big Ten title game against Northwestern and racked up seven tackles with two tackles for loss and a sack in the 62-39 destruction of Michigan.