COLUMBUS — They came in together and many of the Buckeyes biggest football stars are going through the NFL draft process together as well. 14 draftable Buckeyes put their skills on display for 130 NFL Scouts at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center Friday with the draft just a month away in Chicago. Those representatives, including members from all 32 teams with six head coaches, four general managers and one team president in the Woody who were there to see what quarterback coach George Whitfield termed earlier in the week as “perhaps the best NFL Pro Day ever.” “You get so close to all these guys, they feel like your sons,” Annie Apple told ABC-6. Apple’s son Eli is expected to be a first round NFL draft pick beginning April 28th in Chicago. For some scouts, it was a final opportunity to see Buckeye greats like Joey Bosa, Ezekiel Elliott, Braxton Miller, Vonn Bell, Joshua Perry, Cardale Jones, Tyvis Powell, Darron Lee, Taylor Decker, Michael Thomas, Eli Apple, Jalin Marshall, Nick Vannett and Adolphus Washington and others in action one final time in Ohio State gear. For others, it was a chance to see their team’s future stars. Even the scouts who were working the event took a step back and admired what they saw. That buzz was created in large part by the talent that was on display. A total of 14 Buckeyes who were invited to the NFL’s scouting combine in May worked out as well as six other members from a program that has won 50 games in four years under coach Urban Meyer plus two stalwarts off the 2014 national championship squad: linebacker Curtis Grant and defensive end Steve Miller.
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