Barrett lends veteran hand to young Bucks

Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barrett throws a pass against Notre Dame in the Jan. 1 Fiesta Bowl.(Photo: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports) COLUMBUS – Easily attracting the biggest crowd during Ohio State’s Media Day, J.T. Barrett proved as adept at completing someone else’s sentence as he has looked completing passes and drives as the Buckeyes’ dual-threat quarterback. Reporter: “You’ve been through …” Barrett: “… a lot.” For someone who has rewritten the OSU record book, ranked among the leaders in Heisman Trophy voting and played a major role in the Buckeyes’ 2014 national championship season, Barrett’s college career has been a soap opera played out in front of one of the largest fan bases in America. He went from winning a starting job in 2014 because of an injury to losing the job because of injury, to failing in 2015 to win back the starting job in an open competition, to regaining the job before losing it again because of a drunk-driving arrest, to getting it back in time to share the blame for last year’s only loss, to looking like his old self in resounding back-to-back wins over the two winningest programs in history. Got all that? Last year had…

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