COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Adam Griffin knows what it is like to follow in the footsteps of an icon. He has had to adjust to carrying around the weight of a famous name his entire life. It is something you have to learn from and adapt to when you are the son of the only two-time Heisman Trophy winner, and perhaps the most revered Buckeye of them all, Archie Griffin. ”Probably my sophomore year in high school playing football, that’s the first time it ever hit me,” said Adam, a backup cornerback for 14th-ranked Ohio State. Jamar Butler, a member of the Big Ten champion Buckeyes basketball team, came up to Adam that night – Adam’s first as a starter – and said, ”You’re Archie Griffin’s son!” It was the first time he realized that his family and his father were different, that he would have to live up to a lot while living a normal life. Archie …
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