After Staff Changes, the Pressure is on Zach Smith and Ohio State's Wide Receivers to Produce in 2017


Philly Brown. Devin Smith. Evan Spencer. Michael Thomas. Jalin Marshall. Braxton Miller.These are names that came through Ohio State’s wide receivers room at one point or another in their careers and either got drafted or made it to the NFL in some capacity under Zach Smith. Though Curtis Samuel played both running back and wide receiver for Ohio State in 2016 and it remains unclear how the team that drafts him will use his talents, we will include him in that list because he led the team in receptions this past season. Samuel will get drafted, and another wide receiver who left early — Noah Brown — will too. Two seniors from the group, Dontre Wilson (a hybrid like Samuel) and Corey Smith, await their professional fates but are likely to go undrafted. There are many other players from Smith’s time at Florida under Urban Meyer that turned pro but our focus…

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