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Ohio State Slot Cornerback Shaun Wade Staying Focused on Current Role While He Starts to Command Attention As Future NFL Draft Prospect

Among Ohio State’s draft-eligible underclassmen, no player’s profile as a future NFL prospect and potential early draft entrant has grown more in the first half of the Buckeyes’ season than slot cornerback Shaun Wade.

While fellow third-years Chase Young, Jeff Okudah and J.K. Dobbins were already being projected as early-round 2020 NFL draft prospects as soon as the 2019 draft ended, Wade didn’t have enough of a résumé to be a prominent name in those discussions before this season. Although he was the Buckeyes’ primary slot cornerback in 2018, he was a situational player last season, and had only one year of playing experience at Ohio State after redshirting as a true freshman.