INDIANAPOLIS — What is Braxton Miller? It’s a lingering question this week, to be sure. And a couple years ago, after he blew out his throwing shoulder in the 2014 Orange Bowl, it was a question Miller himself couldn’t quite answer. “I never asked, but I think if you went to him before the Orange Bowl and tried to find out — Does he see himself as an NFL quarterback? — he might’ve said no,” said Mickey Marotti, Ohio State’s assistant AD for football sports performance. “I didn’t know what that answer was. So after the injury, I asked him. And he said, ‘No, I see myself as an NFL athlete.’ ” Not as a quarterback. Or a tailback. Or a receiver. As an athlete. That, it seems, is right where we remain with the player who finished in the top 10 in Heisman voting in consecutive seasons and won back-to-back Big Ten Player of the Year awards as a quarterback, missed the entire 2014 season as his Buckeyes captured the national title, and came back in 2015 as a spread-offense Inspector Gadget…
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