Ohio State’s Shaun Wade picked as a player to build around in the NFL by ESPN’s Bill Connelly

ESPN’s Bill Connelly singled out Ohio State cornerback Shaun Wade as a player an NFL team could build around in the 2021 NFL Draft.

The contracts haven’t even been signed in a lot cases for all the players selected in the 2020 NFL Draft and already many experts are already looking in the crystal ball towards the 2021 NFL Draft. Nobody knows what kind of college football season we’re going to have, but we know where we’ve been. There are guys seen as can’t miss prospects, and others that have the tools to develop into something really special.

ESPN recently published a wide-ranging roundtable on some of the prospects in the 2021 draft class. The panel focused on quarterbacks, sure-fire first-rounders, fast risers, and more.

When it came time to focus on a player other than a quarterback to build around, Bill Connelly went a different direction than everyone else and pointed to Ohio State cornerback Shaun Wade. His reasoning is sound, and here’s what he said about the potential shut-down corner.

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