COLUMBUS — Ohio State’s veteran linebackers — Dallas Gant, Teradja Mitchell and K’Vaughan Pope — have been waiting. And waiting. And waiting for their turn to play. Now approaching their fourth season in the Buckeyes program, Gant, Mitchell and Pope might be the prime candidates to be OSU’s starting linebackers this season. With Tuf Borland, Pete Werner, Justin Hilliard and Baron Browning getting almost all of the snaps last season, Gant had 17 tackles. Mitchell, who was ranked No. 44 nationally in the 2018 recruiting class, had six and Pope had just two. All of which leads to the question, were the guys playing ahead of them that good or were the three linebackers in waiting, who all arrived as 4-star recruits, unable to convince the coaches they should take playing time away from the four linebackers at the top of last year’s depth chart. If Ohio State is going…
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