With a Super Bowl-high five players to set to play in the NFL’s championship game, Ohio State has unsurprisingly used its heavy representation in the professional ranks as just another sales pitch on the recruiting trail.
One look at Urban Meyer’s Twitter account shows a head coach who’s clearly proud of his team’s presence in the Super Bowl and isn’t shy about letting any of his 369,000 followers know it.
But with two weeks sandwiched between the NFL’s conference championships and the biggest game of the season, the Buckeyes have found another way to sell their program’s ability to put players in the pros.
And it happens to come in the form of a player who just finished one of Columbus’ most storied football careers despite finding his football future in doubt merely a year ago.
If you’ve been following coverage of the Senior Bowl from Mobile, Alabama, it’s been hard to miss Braxton Miller’s name in the past week. On several occasions, draft analysts and media members in attendance have taken to Twitter to rave about the progress of the former Ohio State wideout, who will play for the North team in Saturday’s All-Star Game:
The fact that Miller is even in a position to be drafted—let alone potentially in the first two rounds of the draft—could be considered a success in and of itself, considering where the Huber Heights, Ohio, native’s football fate stood just a year ago.
After a torn labrum in fall camp forced a second offseason shoulder surgery and…
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