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Chuba Hubbard On Transitioning from Canadian Football and Redshirting at OSU

A few years ago, Chuba Hubbard was playing on a field with 24 players instead of 22. The field was bigger, people were motioning everywhere and the goalposts were at the front of the field’s 20-yard end zone.

Hubbard, a redshirt freshman from Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada, spent his high school days playing football under Canadian rules.

Here’s a video that can explain to you what that means much better than I could:

At Saturday’s OSU Media Day, Hubbard said the transitions between the two forms of football hasn’t been difficult for him, but he just had to learn a lot of the things an American high school player would have to.