Ohio State football preseason fall camp is well underway now. As things progress, we’ll continue to get nuggets of where things stand in some of the key competitions, and when it comes to this season, nothing gets more attention than who will replace Justin Fields as the starter for the Buckeyes.
Ryan Day has said all along he hopes there is enough separation to name a starter far enough before the season to move forward with chemistry and development. Based on comments he made today, that could come sooner rather than later.
“I think after this week we’re going to have a really good feel,” Day told reporters. “I think that Wednesday will be a big day — Saturday will be a big day. We’ll take Sunday off and come up for air, and at that point, I think we’ll have a pretty good feel (on the quarterback situation). I think maybe it’ll take another week after that, but we’ll see. Now that we’re kind of getting into practice five, we’re getting into 20 practices now when you include the spring. So, this is a pretty good body of work that we’re putting together day after day. Will it be ready next week? I don’t know. But it’ll be pretty close to that timetable.”
Ryan Day said Ohio State has no frontrunner in its quarterback competition, but it might by the end of this week. More from @brdispatch: https://t.co/HrVqdPMkmK
— Joey Kaufman (@joeyrkaufman) August 9, 2021
As a reminder, the quarterback race is really down to three guys: redshirt freshmen C.J. Stroud and Jack Miller, and true freshman Kyle McCord. It’s doubtful five-star quarterback Quinn Ewers will be in the mix. The prevailing thought is Stroud is the leader in the clubhouse. Despite Day continuing to say there’s no front-runner, Stroud has been first out in drills and was the backup to Fields last season. It’s hard to see anyone else grabbing the starting job in a week’s time if it’s not Stroud, but we’ve been surprised before.
Even though Day and company might know where things stand, based on his comments, don’t expect an announcement to occur for over a week or so. Either way, we’ll be on top of it when the news is made available.
[lawrence-related id=55570,55334]
Contact/Follow us @BuckeyesWire on Twitter, and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Ohio State news, notes and opinion.