In his return from a hamstring injury, Ohio State receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba was on the field for slightly more than a third of the Buckeyes’ offensive snaps. Smith-Njigba played 22 out of 64 snaps in Saturday’s 54-10 win over Iowa, according to the tracking data from Pro Football Focus, catching one pass for seven yards. All of those came before he left in the second quarter with a slight limp after trying to catch up to a pass thrown by quarterback C.J. Stroud. Buckeyes coach Ryan Day said the staff had planned to keep Smith-Njigba, who had been sidelined for four out of the previous five games, on a “pitch count” of around 20 snaps, a threshold he met before halftime. In his postgame news conference, Day downplayed concerns that Smith-Njigba had re-aggravated his injured hamstring. For not only Smith-Njigba’s snap counts from Saturday, but also the rest of the…
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