COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jaxon Smith-Njigba was a high school freshman in Texas when the Ohio State football team played Oklahoma in 2016. The sophomore has done his research into the great catches in Buckeye history, though. He had studied Noah Brown’s catch in the end zone against the Sooners, when he reached around his defender, pinned the J.T. Barrett pass against his opponent’s body and held on for a touchdown. Consider that third-and-19 catch Smith-Njigba made late in the third quarter against Michigan an homage. He reached around DJ Turner and made a grab that seemed equally impossible on each successive rewatch. The second team Sporting News All-American said quarterback C.J. Stroud threw the ball expecting to get a pass interference call. His receiver, however, knew what was possible because of what he had seen Brown do. “Third-and-19, I knew we had to get a first down,” Smith-Njigba said. “It…
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