May 1, 2026

Ohio State football: What 2019 Buckeye NFL draftees face in getting onto the field

Let’s take a look at the football situations in which each Ohio State player taken in 2019 landed.  Nick Bosa, defensive end, first round, San Francisco 49ers  The No. 2 overall pick joins a defensive line that ranked 19th in the league in Football Outsiders’ “adjusted line yards,” a figure that attempts to remove the impact of the back seven when evaluating a front. The 49ers were also in the bottom half of the league in adjusted sack rate despite getting 12 sacks from DeForest Buckner.  >>RELATED: The pre-draft moment that stuck with 49ers brass regarding Nick Bosa Bosa could the final piece to a dominant front as he joins a group that also included recent first-round pick Solomon Thomas and added Pro Bowl end Dee Ford.  “It’s pretty impossible to double-team any of us because then you’re single-teaming one of us,” Bosa told reporters after being drafted. “It’s going…

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