By the end of last season, redshirt junior center Josh Myers had seen enough. He’d watched redshirt sophomore tackle Nicholas Petit-Frere develop his body, seen him put on weight and learn the requisite offensive line technique.
Once in the final quarter of the 2019 season, Myers finally felt fully confident in Petit-Frere’s ability to play at an Ohio State level. Entering the offseason, he assumed the third-year lineman would replace Branden Bowen at right tackle and was proven correct. Petit-Frere beat out Paris Johnson and Dawand Jones to win the job, which Ryan Day made official eight days ago.