It takes a Heisman Trophy finalist to replace a Heisman Trophy finalist. At least it does at Ohio State. Quarterback Justin Fields will be in New York on Saturday for the awarding of the Heisman Trophy and so will teammate Chase Young, giving OSU two of the four players in contention for college football”s most prestigious award. Fields, a sophomore transfer from Georgia, will slide into the chair occupied last year by his predecessor under center for the Buckeyes, Dwayne Haskins, who finished third behind Oklahoma’s Kyler Murray and Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa. Fields will be joined at the ceremony by former Buckeye Joe Burrow, who transferred to LSU in the summer of 2018 after Haskins won the quarterback competition between the two in spring practice. If not for a broken hand, suffered on a freak practice injury in the fall of 2017, Burrow might never have given Haskins that chance.…
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