When the Ohio high school state football playoffs began in November of 2014, Robert Landers was a senior defensive tackle at Huber Heights Wayne High School committed to play college football at West Virginia.A couple of weeks after Wayne’s playoff run ended following a state championship appearance, Landers flipped his commitment to Ohio State. What happened during that five-week stretch is the reason why. “He was just unblockable,” Wayne head coach Jay Minton recalled. “We played [Cincinnati] Moeller that year, we played some really powerful teams, and every one of them said this kid was just phenomenal, that you just couldn’t block him. “Some of them were saying that there were plays they couldn’t run because of Robert. They just had to throw them out of the playbook.” The phone of Buckeyes co-defensive coordinator Luke Fickell did not stop ringing. With each week that passed, another head coach would call Fickell to talk about an undersized defensive tackle who ruined his team’s game plan. “[Landers] went to the playoffs and four weeks in a row every head coach that he played called after the game,” Fickell said. “He beat Dublin Coffman and [ head coach Mark] Crabtree called me after…
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