COLUMBUS, Ohio — At this point in his college career, J.T. Barrett is an offseason workout veteran.
From the lifts that led to numbness in his arms as an early enrollee in 2013 to the battle to be Braxton Miller’s backup a year later to last offseason’s recovery from a broken ankle, Barrett is no stranger to the rigors that accompany Ohio State’s winter workouts leading into spring practice. The redshirt junior has become a fixture in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, the undisputed face of the Buckeyes program following the mass exodus of established talent from last season’s team.
But as the Wichita Falls, Texas, native grinds through his fourth winter in Columbus, he finds himself in a role he’s yet to play in any of his previous offseasons in his college career.
For the first time since arriving at Ohio State three years ago, Barrett is spending his winter as the undisputed starting quarterback, despite already being one of the program’s few known on-field commodities entering 2016.
“Dang,” Barrett said when it was mentioned to him that this is his first offseason as Ohio State’s established starting signal-caller. “Yeah, I didn’t think about that.”
It is kind of hard to believe, given all that Barrett has already accomplished in his college career.
As a redshirt freshman in 2014, the 6’1″, 225-pounder obliterated the Buckeyes’ single-season quarterback record book, setting a program high for total offense and a new Big Ten mark for total touchdowns en…
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