That way, when the starters turned out to be Burrow’s chums J.T. Barrett (2014-17) and then Dwayne Haskins (2018), the Ohioan realist Burrow could go ahead and graduate from Ohio State before transferring elsewhere in search of playing time and further knowledge. By Sunday, May 6, 2018, with spring practice finished, with Haskins anointed and with Burrow foraging for a fresh longitude, Burrow graduated, even if he did skip the long-winded rite in Ohio Stadium honoring its 6,983 bachelor’s degrees and 11,907 graduates all told. “He didn’t want to be out there for that long,” his father said this week of the ceremony, but his parents, Jimmy and Robin Burrow, did corral the operative wardrobe items. Joe Burrow donned the cap and gown, and the trio posed beside a tree. Buckeyes teammate, friend and defensive lineman Jashon Cornell snapped a photo, which Jimmy Burrow tweeted with the benign phrase, “On…
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