COLUMBUS – How does a three-star wide receiver with just three major scholarship offers in late January of his senior year, from a town with just over 1,000 residents, end up on Ohio State’s radar? The combination of early departures to the NFL from Noah Brown and Curtis Samuel, the decommitment of four-star wideout Tyjon Lindsey and the possibility of at least one other receiver transferring, forced the Buckeyes’ hand to find another guy at the position. “You put the APB out,” head coach Urban Meyer said. “We have a recruiting staff that keeps a file of players available for us, because you can’t watch 60 receivers,” he explained. “And we have a staff put together things and they said, ‘Okay, here’s the top 10 guys.’ We go evaluate them. I get on a plane, we go see them and that’s what happens, and it’s fast.” According to director of…
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