Ohio State football | Buckeyes sending 'only' eight players to combine

Bill Rabinowitz The Columbus Dispatch @brdispatch A year ago, Ohio State invaded the NFL scouting combine like a marauding army. Fourteen players from a team that won the national championship in 2014 and went 12-1 in 2015 descended on Indianapolis. Twelve Buckeyes were drafted, five in the first round and all in the first four rounds. The other two — Jalin Marshall and Tyvis Powell — made rosters as free agents. This year, it will feel more like an incursion than an invasion, but the Buckeyes’ contingent still will be a hardy one. Eight players, including six underclassmen, will do their best to impress teams in the NFL’s version of a meat market. “For most schools, it’s a banner year,” said Dane Brugler, a senior draft analyst for NFLDraftScout and CBS Sports, “but for Ohio State in the Urban Meyer era, it’s what you would expect from the Buckeyes. It’s…

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