Ohio State enters its 2021 offseason with a lot of leadership to replace, but it could have been worse.
For the first time in seven years, Ohio State doesn’t have any returning captains in 2021. All seven of the Buckeyes’ captains from 2020 – Tuf Borland, Jonathan Cooper, Wyatt Davis, Justin Fields, Justin Hilliard, Josh Myers and Shaun Wade – chose to enter the 2021 NFL draft. Other veteran leaders from last year’s team who have now moved on to start their professional careers include Pete Werner, Luke Farrell and Tommy Togiai, among others.
While Ryan Day said before last season that the Buckeyes “probably could have had 11 or 12 captains,” that might not be the case in 2021 with all of those players gone.