When it comes to recruiting, developing, and producing elite wide receiver talent, no program can match the success of Brian Hartline and the Ohio State Buckeyes. Hartline, who was elevated to offensive coordinator following Chip Kelly’s departure this offseason, has been the wide receivers coach in Columbus since 2018, and the success he’s had at the position is like a snowball, growing and building speed as it rolls downhill.
The NFL draft picks, and there are many, may not be the example of the strength of Hartline and Ryan Day’s wide receiver factory. Instead, it could be how the elite wide receivers of the present help to stock the shelves for the future.