Mitch Rossi likely would have never played college football if not for his high school teammate Max Wray. Going into the spring of his senior year of high school, Rossi hadn’t been recruited to play football by any high-level colleges. That changed when Wray, a four-star offensive tackle recruit who ultimately signed with Ohio State in 2018, asked Rossi to accompany him on his unofficial visit to OSU in the spring of 2017. Ohio State’s recruiting staff watched Rossi’s film from Franklin (Tennessee) High School when it found out Rossi would be traveling to Columbus with Wray, and the Buckeyes decided to offer him a spot on the team as a preferred walk-on. At the time, there was no expectation that Rossi’s role with the team would ever amount to much more than playing on the scout team in practice. “I remember, we sat down with (former assistant director of player…
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