COLUMBUS, Ohio — The opportunity presented itself and what freshman running back J.K Dobbins has shown through three weeks of Ohio State’s preseason camp is what he flashed in a small Texas town halfway between Austin and Houston for years. This sounds like a running back who is going to play for the Buckeyes in 2017. “I would say so, yeah,” OSU running backs coach Tony Alford said after practice Friday. That’s play, and matter, for a national championship contender the year after his senior high school season ended after one play with a broken right leg. “You come around this town of 5,000 down here in La Grange, Texas, and everybody talks about him and sees the headlines, but nobody’s surprised in this whole town,” Dobbins’ high school coach Matt Kates told cleveland.com Friday. “That’s anybody that knows him, and I know that’s a crazy statement, when you talk…
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