June 23, 2026

Rob Oller | Ohio State's Justin Fields must go it alone without QB mentor

A starting quarterback crucial to Ohio State’s 2019 success doesn’t even play for Ohio State. For the sake of the Buckeyes, Jake Fromm better have done a good job mentoring Justin Fields, who spent last season backing up Fromm at Georgia before transferring to Ohio State, where he is expected to start the opener Aug. 31 against Florida Atlantic. There is concern inside the OSU football program — ranging from the current staff to former coach Urban Meyer — that Fields will be forced to figure things out on his own without having a quarterback on the roster who came up through the Buckeyes’ carefully crafted culture; someone who can model that culture for the sophomore. Join the conversation at Facebook.com/BuckeyeXtra and connect with us on Twitter @BuckeyeXtra The thinking is that as summer approaches and players begin working out with one another — NCAA rules prohibit coaches from being present — it becomes…

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