July 1, 2026

Antwuan Jackson Moving Forward with NFL Draft Preparation After Missing Final Game at Ohio State with COVID-19


Ohio State’s starting nose tackle missed the final game of his career due to a positive COVID-19 test for the second year in a row. Antwuan Jackson was supposed to conclude his six-year college football career by playing his last game as a Buckeye in the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day. Instead, Jackson was forced to watch the game from a hotel room, where he spent his entire week in Los Angeles after testing positive for COVID-19 following the team’s arrival in Southern California. “I got COVID as soon as I got there, so that was a sad situation,” Jackson told Eleven Warriors. “That was the reason why I didn’t play.” After testing positive, Jackson called his former teammate Tommy Togiai, who was also forced to watch what would have been the final game of his Ohio State career from afar after he tested positive for COVID-19 before the…

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