Ohio State lineman Harry Miller said he was “medically retiring” from football in a gut-wrenching essay posted Thursday on Twitter. The engineering major wrote of his persistent suicidal thoughts and his harrowing journey getting help. Miller, a 6-foot 4, 315-pound junior who started seven games at left guard for the Buckeyes’ Big Ten- and Sugar Bowl-winning team during the 2020 season, wrote that he told head coach Ryan Day before the 2021 season that he wanted to kill himself. Day arranged help and Miller said he tried football again, concealing cutting scars on his wrist with tape. The scars on his neck, he wrote, didn’t appear noticeable to fans. “There was a dead man on the television set, but nobody knew it,” he wrote. Harry Miller during the Big Ten championship game in December 2020. (Photo: Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Miller, from Buford, Georgia, said he was going public…
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