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Ohio State Football: Three-star recruits ‘Big’ part of Buckeyes’ success

Urban Meyer always loaded up his Ohio State football team with four-star recruits and a few five- stars. But ones in the 2015 recruiting class who weren’t ranked that high contributed to the Buckeyes’ success last season, and in a ‘Big’ way.

By that I mean the majority of them were linemen. Let’s start with those big guys on offense. I’ll list their 247Sports Composite position and overall player rankings in the 2015 recruiting class.

Branden Bowen: No. 61 OT, (543)

Bowen was the starting right guard in 2017 but went down with an injury mid-season he didn’t fully recover from until last spring.