With J.T. Barrett healthy, the Ohio State quarterback job is his to lose this season. 1:13 PM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio — Maybe there’s a small part of Urban Meyer that misses the controversy. Perhaps the Ohio State coach really does believe there’s no such thing as having too many talented quarterbacks on his roster. Either way, Meyer clearly isn’t content to settle into complacency now that there is no back-and-forth battle for the starting job and a pretty stable depth chart at the most important position on the field appears to have actually emerged. If anything, there actually seemed to be a part of Meyer looking for a bit more competition, even after spending all of last year essentially watching a nonstop soap opera unfold as he managed Ohio State’s circus behind center. “Don’t worry about what I would enjoy,” Meyer joked after practice on Tuesday morning. “I wish we had four quarterbacks that I got to choose from.” Meyer still has options at his disposal, and the arrival of touted recruit Dwayne Haskins this summer will give him his desired number of talented passers to evaluate by the time training camp rolls around in August. But there is really not much uncertainty about Ohio State’s quarterbacks as Meyer prepares for his fifth season with the program, which is obviously a far cry from the situation he had a year ago. There might not have been all that much drama last spring, either, when Cardale Jones was the only truly healthy candidate available to take the first-team reps. But at that point, there was still speculation about Braxton Miller’s future and the early stages of the debate between Jones and J.T. Barrett was playing out as the latter worked his way back from the fractured ankle he suffered at the end of his breakout freshman campaign…
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