INDIANAPOLIS — Fifteen years have passed since an Ohio State wide receiver has been taken in the first round of the NFL draft. Twelve Buckeye receivers have been drafted since the Miami Dolphins picked Ted Ginn Jr. ninth overall in 2007. Eight have gone in the second or third round. That includes Michael Thomas and Terry McLaurin, who would go early in the first round if NFL had do-overs. “Fifteen years. Wow,” Garrett Wilson said Wednesday at the NFL combine. That drought almost certainly will end this year. Wilson is projected to go in the top half of the first round. Chris Olave, though not quite a lock, is a first-rounder in most mock drafts. “That would be awesome,” Wilson said. “A lot of those dudes get missed and go in the second round and are just as good. My mission is to prove myself once I get there, but it definitely…
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