COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jordan Fields answered her phone and for two minutes heard no words from the other end. When Ohio State cornerback Shaun Wade finally spoke, his longtime girlfriend could hear the pain in his voice. Wade placed the call from inside the Buckeyes’ locker room at State Farm Stadium, in Glendale, Arizona, last Dec. 28. Minutes earlier, he had made the biggest play of his career — sacking Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence and setting Ohio State up to take a commanding halftime lead in the Fiesta Bowl. Then came an official’s review, a targeting penalty and an ejection. Wade now sat in that locker room, shocked and alone after being required to leave the field. When he finally broke the silence on the phone with Fields, his focus returned to his team. “He was yelling at the TV like he was out there on the sideline,” said Fields,…
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