COLUMBUS, Ohio — Demetrius Knox played 23 snaps of emergency duty as Ohio State’s left guard in last year’s Fiesta Bowl loss to Clemson. But John Bates only needed to see the first one to know that Knox wasn’t ready. From his seat inside of University of Phoenix Stadium, Bates — a former walk-on lineman for the Buckeyes in the 1990s and Knox’s high school offensive line coach — saw what everyone saw. “He looked like he was late off the ball,” Bates told cleveland.com by phone this week from Fort Worth, Texas. “I don’t know what all was going on, but the play was snapped and he looked about a half-second late.” That was the first snap. The second snap went like this: via GIPHY That’s not the Knox that Bates knows. The Knox he knows earned every bit of his standing as a U.S. Army All-American and top-100 national…
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