While it’s hard to gather much information during a glorified scrimmage that featured limited tackling and had several projected starters sidelined by injuries, there were still a handful of things that stood out about Ohio State’s defense during its spring game on Saturday afternoon. Let’s start with a linebacker unit has been decimated by injuries this spring, with senior Dallas Gant dealing with a foot injury and redshirt freshman Mitchell Melton sidelined with a “long-term injury.” The group is so thin that junior long snapper Roen McCullough saw time at linebacker alongside seniors Teradja Mitchell and K’Vaughan Pope, sophomores Cody Simon and Tommy Eichenberg and early enrollee Reid Carrico, so you have to think that a certain linebacker in the transfer portal saw an easy path to playing time if he was watching today’s game. Melton and Gant were among the five scholarship players on defense who weren’t dressed on…
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