The Ohio State football program hasn’t seen a nose guard as disruptive and productive as Kayden McDonald since first-team All-American Johnathan Hankins terrorized opposing offensive lines in 2012.
That statement isn’t made without data to back it up. McDonald is the first Buckeye nose guard to record eight tackles in a game since Hankins did that season, and just like Hankins that year, he’s done it twice. But while the recently-retired 12-year NFL veteran did so against weaker competition in Cal and UAB, McDonald’s eight-tackle outbursts were against Texas and Penn State.
“I'm a game-wrecker,” McDonald said on Wednesday.