Ohio State is Loaded at Defensive End in 2017; How Does Five-Star Signee Chase Young Fit in the Mix?

In Tyquan Lewis, Sam Hubbard, Jalyn Holmes and Nick Bosa, Ohio State will have four defensive ends during the 2017 season who could likely start for any team in the country. They said as much themselves this spring.Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer essentially echoed those thoughts. “We’ll be as good as anybody in America at defensive end,” Meyer said in March. But is it possible Ohio State adds another player to that stable? Five-star signee Chase Young will arrive in Columbus in June and Buckeyes defensive line coach Larry Johnson didn’t completely rule out the possibility Young could find his way into the rotation at defensive end this upcoming fall. “He will have an opportunity to compete. I think that’s is the bottom line,” Johnson said at the conclusion of spring ball. “The thing that we have to be careful about, even if we have four guys returning, those four guys…

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