Ohio State coach Urban Meyer reacts to some of the action in this year’s spring game inside Ohio Stadium. His Buckeyes will be replacing 16 starters this season.(Photo: Aaron Doster-USA TODAY Sports) CHICAGO – Urban Meyer had a chance to pump the brakes on talk of his young, largely unproven Ohio State football team being a Big Ten championship contender Tuesday during Big Ten Media Days. If anything, he pressed his foot down harder on the accelerator. “I see that potential,” he said of the Buckeyes, replacing 16 starters, including a record 12 taken in the first four rounds of the NFL draft. “(The national championship season of) 2014 was the template everyone wants. J.T. Barrett was buried on the depth chart … Darron Lee, Eli Apple, Zeke Elliott, Mike Thomas, those were no-names and then they became very good throughout the course of 2014. Another guy (playoff hero) Cardale Jones, was buried (on the depth chart). “I would say going into it that this is as talented a group, top to bottom, that we’ve had. Now, how do we get them ready?” Nobody on that first College Football Playoff title team in 2014 left early for the pros because, frankly, they hadn’t been…
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