INDIANAPOLIS — No receiver in Big Ten history piled up more yards than Jaxon Smith-Njigba did in his breakout 2021 season for Ohio State football. His was the unexpected monster season in that receiving corps, emerging from the shadows of Chris Olave and Garrett Wilson for the most prolific Buckeye pass-catching season of all time. He went from third option last summer to a preseason favorite to win the Biletnikoff Award as the nation’s top receiver this summer. No returning receiver in the nation totaled more yards than Smith-Njigba’s 1,606 last season. He could obliterate Michael Jenkins’ OSU career record of 2,898 yards and become the program’s first 3,000-yard receiver. How is the junior bracing for the expectations and attention created by those massive numbers and his star-making Rose Bowl performance? How will the connection he and quarterback C.J. Stroud have developed over the past two years show…
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