June 24, 2026

Who were the Buckeyes' best freshmen, like Taron Vincent, in 2018? Ohio State 20 Questions

COLUMBUS, Ohio — By the end of the season, Ohio State made a role for Taron Vincent. He worked hard for it. Really, really hard. “It’s just a matter of time with Taron,” Kevin Wright, Vincent’s high school coach at IMG Academy in Florida, told cleveland.com late in the season. “He’s as intense an inside player as we’ve had. I don’t think I ever had a kid who played any harder up front than what Taron did. It’s one of those situations with him where I think he really found his niche there.” Vincent was a five-star player in the Class of 2018, the Buckeyes’ second-highest rated recruit behind offensive tackle Nicholas Petit-Frere, as the No. 20 overall player in the country. But it’s not just skill with the 6-foot-2, 288-pound defensive tackle. It’s motor. In high school, he regularly played so hard, he’d throw up at halftime. “I’d just…

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