COLUMBUS, Ohio — If Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller hadn’t injured his shoulder in the Orange Bowl to end the 2013 college football season, he would have been no worse than the sixth quarterback taken in the 2014 NFL Draft. © Marvin Fong/Marvin Fong Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback Braxton Miller runs toward the sideline against the Wolverine defense at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, MI, Saturday, November 30, 2013. The first-rounders that year were Blake Bortles, Johnny Manziel and Teddy Bridgewater, with Derek Carr and Jimmy Garoppolo in the second round. Virginia Tech’s Logan Thomas was the sixth QB off the board, taken in Round 4, and nobody was taking Thomas ahead of a healthy Miller back then. As the NFL was starting to change how it viewed and valued quarterbacks who could run, a healthy Miller could have entered the league during the transition. He probably would have been…
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