With Mitchell Melton already out for the year, the Ohio State football team entered the 2021 regular season with only eight scholarship linebackers. And then Dallas Gant entered the transfer portal. And then K’Vaughan Pope had a meltdown during a game and was dismissed from the team. And then there were six.
Like the classic Agatha Christie novel that kept losing characters, the Ohio State football team keeps losing linebackers. We’re just one-third of the way through the regular season and the depth at this position is very much a concern. A bigger concern is the quality of that depth.