Ezekiel Elliott NFL Draft: Ohio State RB a top 15 pick?

Smith said that although he wishes Elliott kept his comments private, “we’ve got to recognize today that people have rights and he’s a man growing”.

Ohio State went from a team talking repeat entering the season, to a dysfunctional offense that lost to a team without it’s starting quarterback, as players start publicly taking draft day with one more regular-season game to go.

MI State is 6-1 in its last seven games against Associated Press Top 10 teams.

The 17-14 loss to MI State is not an indictment on Ohio State’s program or the often anemic offense.

Stay on topic – This helps keep the thread focused on the discussion at hand. He carried the ball four times the rest of the game, including only two carries for three yards in the second half.

“I don’t know if there is any one solution”, senior center Jacoby Boren said.

MI State out-coached Ohio State. “We’ll have to throw a few passes and drop back”.

But now OSU hopes that last Saturday’s loss to MI State can be converted to even more incentive to get a win over its biggest rival and needs some other things fall right for them. They beat us at the line of scrimmage.

The Spartans marched 75 yards on 13 plays, no completed passes but a helpful offside on Ohio State, and Gerald Holmes reached the ball over the goal line for a 2-yard touchdown to tie at 14 with 12:03 left.

Ezekiel Elliott voiced his displeasure in how the coaching staff prepared the team for the big game, adding he was disappointed in how he was used during the contest. But I am not leaving after this season because we lost that game. “We’re going to go out there and do everything we can to get a win”.

“I didn’t want to pull a Jalen Watts-Jackson”, Geiger said, referring to his teammate who ended up with a broken hip after returning a botched punt for a touchdown to beat MI in October. “I don’t think MI State was better than us”. “Honestly, I can’t speak for the play calling”.

You can either choose to believe Elliott’s comments are the first crack in the machine Meyer built in Columbus, a NFL Draft exodus will precede a hit in recruiting and more systemic problems will tear all that down. For the first time in a long time, Ohio State did not have a response.

Ohio State plays MI next week.

“For those of you who ever played or coached that happens”, Meyer said. The Harbaugh era is off to a great start and a win over Ohio State will prove the Wolverines are back among the nation’s elite. The front five opened up holes for the running game that allowed the Spartans to put up 203 rushing yards as a group compared to OSU’s 86.

While none of the Spartans running backs have taken control enough to follow in the footsteps of former Spartan running back Jeremy Langford, they performed well as a group and enabled MI State to compile 203 yards on the ground. The Spartans displayed outstanding gap integrity every time the Buckeyes tried to run wide. What they can do is go with what has worked most of the season, power football with No. 15 in the lead. Getting to see a quarterback like Cook against the Buckeyes’ secondary would have offered a pretty good look into what MI would actually be dealing with this week, although the weather was not so great.