After Justin Fields suffered a back injury on a third-quarter touchdown run in Ohio State’s 38-7 win over Wisconsin on Saturday, one might think he would want to take this week – the Buckeyes’ second bye week of the regular season – to rest and recover as much as possible.
Fields doesn’t see it that way.
“A lot of guys, they use bye weeks just to rest and stuff like that, but I take an approach to the bye week as a time to get better,” Fields said this week. “So during the bye week, I’m just gonna go back to fundamentals and just working on my feet and just pocket presence and just get down to the basics, really.