Now that the college football season is over, we’ll soon turn our attention to the upcoming 2022 NFL draft. There’s still some NFL playoff football to watch, but the annual spectacle that is the draft will consume everyone’s attention in the not-too-distant future.
On that note, whenever we talk about sending players to the NFL, Ohio State is generally in whatever equation computes to players walking across the stage each year. With another crop of talented American football types leaving OSU and headed to the highest level of play, that’s sure to be the case again in 2022.
We’ve already had some mock drafts making the rounds months before all the shenanigans take place in Las Vegas, and we’ve got our latest first-round update from USA TODAY’s Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, complete with a projection of which teams select in what slot.
Middlehurst-Schwartz has two Ohio State players going in the first round and we’re here to keep you informed on what he thinks with his ear to all the whispers going on.
Here are the two players that he believes will go in the first round, who will select them, and what he says about each.