Former Ohio State cornerbacks Gareon Conley and Marshon Lattimore are headed to the NFL. That means the Buckeyes will have to find two new starters at the corner position for the 2017 season, right? Wrong. The team already has a starter in Denzel Ward, who will be a junior in the fall. “You guys keep saying he wasn’t a starter last year and I know he didn’t walk out onto the field for the first snap of the game, but he played the same number of snaps as Marshon and Gareon,” said OSU cornerbacks coach Kerry Coombs of Ward on Thursday. “So I would prefer it if you guys refer to him as the third starter at corner because that’s what he was. We had a two-, three-man rotation. There was never a series where he didn’t go, and then somebody came out.” Since the time Conley and Lattimore announced…
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