Noah Ruggles Returning to Ohio State for Additional Year of Eligibility

Noah Ruggles is returning to Ohio State for another season.

The Ohio State kicker is planning to use his additional year of eligibility to play a second season with the Buckeyes and a sixth overall season of college football, an Ohio State spokesperson said Tuesday after Bucknuts first reported that Ruggles was expected to return to the Buckeyes in 2022.

Ruggles, who spent four seasons at North Carolina before transferring to Ohio State last summer, established himself as an NFL prospect this past season when he made all but one of his 21 field goal attempts for the entire season. Ruggles, who tied for the second-best field goal percentage in the entire Football Bowl Subdivision for the 2021…