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75 days till the Cardinals’ season opener against the Bills

Rookie tackle Christian Jones now wears No. 75. The last impactful No. 75 was guard Alex Boone in 2017.

The NFL offseason continues and we continue to count down the days until the Arizona Cardinals open their season. Training camp has been announced, giving fans something to look forward to in the next month.

But the Cardinals’ season opener on the road against the Buffalo Bills on September 8 is in 75 days.

No. 75 on the Cardinals’ roster currently is rookie offensive lineman Christian Jones, drafted this year in the fifth round out of Texas.

He has not yet made an impact and will have a battle to even make the roster this year.

It has been a while since No. 75 has been worn by a player of any sort of impact. Cardinals fans will  remember both Leonard Davis and Levi Brown. Both were longtime starters and made an impact, although they were viewed disappointingly.

But the last player to make some impact with No. 75 was Alex Boone, who played one season for the Cardinals in 2017. He played in 14 games, starting 13 at guard. He was best known for his six seasons as a starter for the San Francisco 49ers but finished his career playing a season each for the Minnesota Vikings, the Cardinals and then one game for the Seattle Seahawks in 2020.

The countdown will continue tomorrow.

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Highest rated Ohio State football players in college football video game history

Highest rated Ohio State football players in college football video game history #GoBucks

A teaser trailer dropped for the new upcoming EA Sports College Football video game and despite seeing very little gameplay and details, the anticipation is at an all-time high. At this point, gamers who have waited a decade just want the playoffs and transfer portal added and would be happy with the graphics from the past generation of consoles.

According to the trailer, we can expect a full reveal this May and the game to hit shelves this summer, but if you are like me, you are too much of a pessimist to believe it. Nonetheless, it is fun to take this opportunity to look back on some of the highest-rated Ohio State football players in this game’s history. The craziest part of this list is that a now current coach on the staff is tied as the highest Buckeye ever rated.

The last game came out in 2013 and it is a real shame we missed out on studs like Nick Bosa, Chase Young and of course C.J. Stroud, but it will be interesting to see who some of the top guys are this year.

Highest rated Ohio State football players in “NCAA Football” video game history

Highest rated Ohio State Buckeyes in NCAA video game history #GoBucks #NCAAFootball

The NCAA video game series has been a pillar in many households since 1998 and for some even before that during the days of “Bill Walsh College Football.” It was downright devastating when EA Sport stopped producing the game after “NCAA ’14.”

The game — or a version thereof — is scheduled to return in time for the 2023 season and I just simply can’t wait. It got me wondering who the ten highest-rated Ohio State football players were in the video game’s history. It is important to remember that no names were used for the rosters, but we can make some safe assumptions that QB No. 2 would have been Terrelle Pryor. It’s part of the reason EA Sports had to stop making the game.

Another item of note is that it is extremely hard to find any rosters before the 2004 version, but I feel I exhausted my options and found the best results. I also want to note that the first “Bill Walsh College Football” game didn’t even have Ohio State and instead had an odd copycat team named Columbus. There were no individual player ratings and therefore that game was not used. Oh, and don’t forget, NCAA games were labeled a year in advance so the 2005 version of the game is actually for the 2004 season. Got it? No, maybe — sort of?

Let’s move forward anyway with the top ten rated Ohio State football players in the history of the “NCAA Football” video game franchise.

Top five NFL Combine bench press performances by Ohio State players

Top five NFL Combine bench press performances by Ohio State players #GoBucks

The 2022 NFL Scouting Combine starts this week in Indianapolis, Indiana, and it always provides a unique and stress-inducing showcase for future NFL players. The combine is typically the most important part of the pre-draft process for many NFL prospects and serves as the most important job interview these young men may have in their lives.

Any seasoned NFL scout will tell you that the combine is not the end all be all and is just a part of the process, but fans love the idea of the underwear Olympics, and seeing some of these freak athletes accomplish insane feats in the bench press, shuttle run, 40-yard dash, vertical jump, and broad jump. The following are the top five bench press performances by former Ohio State football players. We are only tracking numbers from the NFL Scouting Combine and not from pro days and only numbers since the NFL Scouting Combing moved to Indianapolis in 1987.

Former Vikings G Alex Boone is trying to get back in the league

Boone started 13 games for the Cardinals in 2017, but has been out of the league since.

Alex Boone last played in the NFL in 2017.

After two years out of the league, Boone wants back in, per an announcement he made via Skor North.

Boone started 13 games for the Cardinals in 2017, but has been out of the league since. Vikings fans are familiar with him from his lone season with the club in 2016 when he started 14 games.

There are plenty of teams in the league who could use offensive line help and with Boone only being 32 years old, I’m sure someone will take a gamble on him.

Per Spotrac, Boone had made nearly $23 million in his eight-year career.

Former Vikings offensive lineman Alex Boone announces that he is planning an NFL return

It sounds like former Minnesota Vikings guard Alex Boone is making an NFL comeback.

Alex Boone has not played in the NFL since his 2017 stint with the Cardinals, but the former Vikings guard has announced that he wants another shot.

Boone said on SKOR North that he wants to return to the NFL next season.

“It took me the weekend to really think about it, and I had a long talk with my agent, and we just went over it,” Boone said on the radio station. “Now that there’s mutual interest from both sides, I absolutely need to go back and try and do this if it’s going to be there.”

Boone has eight years of NFL experience under his belt. He played one season with the Vikings where he started 14 games. Boone said he has started eating and training already, putting on weight.

“The one thing I always regret is never winning a championship, and kind of giving up on it,” Boone said. “I don’t want to do that again.”