Mike Weber picks up yardage during Ohio State’s spring game in April.(Photo: Jay LaPrete, AP) Running back Bri’onte Dunn’s dismissal from Ohio State’s football team has put former Detroit Cass Tech star Mike Weber directly in the spotlight. Weber, a 5-foot-10, 215-pound sophomore who was the No. 1 player on The Detroit News Blue Chip list in 2015, is expected to be the main man in the Buckeyes’ backfield after Dunn, a senior, was dismissed for violating team rules. Weber was expected to battle Dunn for the No. 1 job in fall camp. The Buckeyes must replace All-American running back Ezekiel Elliott, who rushed for 3,699 yards and 41 TDs the last two seasons. Elliott was a first-round draft pick of the Cowboys. “He definitely improved,” OSU running backs coach Tony Alford told Cleveland.com about Weber at the conclusion of spring practices. “He definitely has grown up a bunch. He’s had a good spring. (He’s) a physical player, which we thought he was, but he really started gravitating to starting to learn this offense the way you’d like him to.” Weber rushed for 2,265 yards and 29 TDs his senior year at Cass Tech and was committed to Michigan before…
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