With the way Ohio State is shelling out players to the NFL, Mark Pantoni’s job gets more secure with each passing season he works for Urban Meyer.“There’s some pressure to make sure when you lose a Darron Lee, you’d better bring in someone just as good or the team is not as good,” Pantoni said on National Signing Day. “You always have to try to equate the talent that you lose with what you bring in. And then every year, there may be one or two guys that leave that you’re not projecting to leave.” Sound familiar? Meyer echoes that mutiple times every football season. It becomes redundant but remains timely, with how 15 players have left Ohio State early over the last two seasons. In all, the program saw 19 players get drafted over the same span and more than a handful signed with pro teams as free agents. It adds…
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