Rapid Rise of Former Ohio State Stars Malik Hooker, Marshon Lattimore Culminates Thursday Night at the NFL Draft


As I drove down Lane Ave. two weekends ago and headed toward Ohio Stadium, I couldn’t help but do a double-take. Then, I laughed out loud to myself in the car. “Nobody in their right mind could have predicted that one year ago,” I thought. Walking down the street was a family of four — presumably — a mother, father and their two children. They appeared on their way toward the stadium for Ohio State’s annual spring game. The mother and father were dressed head to toe in scarlet and gray apparel: hats, T-shirts, crazy-colored pants — the whole nine yards. But it’s what the kids had on that resonated with me most. One son was dressed in a customized scarlet Marshon Lattimore No. 2 jersey. The other son donned a white Malik Hooker No. 24. Man, what? Sure, Lattimore and Hooker were both studs on Ohio State’s 2016 team.…

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