Khris Hale/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Joe Burrow grew up in Ohio, graduated from the state’s flagship university and is the quarterback for one of its two NFL teams. It should come as no surprise, then, that he considers himself a Buckeye even though he transferred to LSU to continue his football career. “I’m definitely still a Buckeye,” he told reporters Thursday. “I graduated from there.” Burrow arrived at Ohio State as a 4-star prospect in the class of 2015, per 247Sports’ composite rankings. He was competing for the backup job behind the entrenched J.T. Barrett in 2017 but suffered a broken hand. That allowed Dwayne Haskins to move ahead of Burrow on the depth chart. It ended up being a critical injury because Barrett later suffered his own injury during the rivalry game against Michigan. Haskins entered and rallied the Buckeyes to a comeback victory, essentially cementing himself as the…
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