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ESPN assigns Ohio State receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. percentage to be top NFL draft pick

How high does Harrison Jr. get selected? #GoBucks

We all have heard the superlatives for [autotag]Ohio State[/autotag] wide receiver [autotag]Marvin Harrison Jr.[/autotag]

Generational talent. Best player in college football regardless of position. Shoe in NFL draft first-round pick.

The question is how high could Harrison Jr. go? ESPN’s Jordan Reid took a crack at answering that and put the Ohio State junior’s percentage of being the top pick in the draft at just 1%.

It’s hard to fault Reid’s logic, the last wide receiver to be selected with the first pick was in 1996 when the New York Jets picked USC’s Keyshawn Johnson. It has been almost 30 years since then and the majority of top picks have been mainly quarterbacks with a defensive end and offensive tackle sprinkled here and there.

Reid does talk up Harrison Jr., saying that “talent-wise, Harrison is a blue-chip player with immediate star potential.” His sources around the league are “understandably very high” on the Buckeye star. Reid thinks that Harrison Jr. will be the highest-ever selection at wide receiver for a Buckeye, besting [autotag]Terry Glenn[/autotag] at No. 7 overall in 1996.

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Face of the Position: Wide Receiver

What Ohio State player do you think of historically when you discuss the wide receiver position? #GoBucks

It’s the doldrums of almost summer and you are most likely stuck between queueing up last year’s Rose Bowl victory over Utah on the DVR for the umpteenth time, reading rankings and listicles that include Ohio State, and yearning for the start of the college football season.

Sounds like a perfect time to kick off a series we are embarking upon here at Buckeyes Wire. We call it the “face of the position” and it’s really exactly as it sounds. When you think of a position group at Ohio State, who do you think of? From quarterback to linebacker, to placekicker and beyond, OSU has some of the most iconic and historical college football players that have taken their place among the best in the game.

However, one player stands out above all else when you shroud them behind the colors of scarlet and gray, and that’s where we are going to ask for your assistance.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be highlighting players that are in the running for the face of a position at Ohio State and asking for your vote in a Twitter poll to have one player identified as the one you think immediately at that position.

We’ve already looked at the quarterback position and running backs. Now we’re moving on to the wide receiver position where Ohio State has begun to recruit better than anyone. It’s a position that might eventually be considered  Cadillac group in the history of Ohio State over the next few years because it’s already well on its way with a lot of momentum.

We’ll keep voting up for five days, and at the end of it, we’ll reveal the winner of each. Make sure you scroll to the bottom to cast your vote from the nominees and write in a candidate if you think of another player.

Tom Brady’s first touchdown ball going to auction… has Ohio State connection

The ball from Tom Brady’s first NFL career touchdown pass is going to auction, and former Ohio State receiver Terry Glenn made it happen.

Most Ohio State fans have little interest in Tom Brady and the former Michigan Wolverine’s accomplishments. However, this story directly connects back to OSU and a former Buckeye.

All the way back on October 14, 2001, a young Brady was filling in an injured Drew Bledsoe. At the time, no one knew that Tom Brady was going to become one of the greatest of all time. Certainly not former Ohio State receiver and Patriot teammate, the late Terry Glenn.

Glenn was on the receiving end of Brady’s first-ever touchdown pass in the NFL. A 21-yard strike in the front of the endzone would be the first of 581 career touchdowns. But at that moment, it was just another TD reception and after celebrating with teammates, Glenn found his way toward the stands and fired the ball upward. And one lucky fan was about to have his life changed, although there’s no way he could’ve realized it at the time.

ESPN writer Tom VanHaaren shares the story in-depth. The fan who wishes to remain anonymous remembers thinking at the time that it was just another ball and was just happy to nab an authentic piece of the game before others around him.

After 20 years of keeping the historic item safe and sound, the owner of the one-of-a-kind ball has decided to cash in. The unique pigskin will be going up for auction on Lelands starting tomorrow and will run through June 4.

Maybe as an Ohio State fan, you’d like to bid on Terry Glenn’s 22nd career touchdown catch. But something tells me you’ll have to dig deep in the pockets to get this particular piece of Buckeye memorabilia.

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At least four Buckeyes named finalists for College Football Awards

Four Ohio State Buckeyes have been named finalists for major college football awards to be handed out in a few weeks.

Four members of the Ohio State football team have been named as finalists for a total of five major college football awards this year. Chase Young, even with his two-game suspension, is a finalist for both the Chuck Bednarik Award (best defensive player) and the Maxwell Award (best overall player).

Three other Buckeyes are finalists for their respective awards. Justin Fields is one of the three finalists for the Davey O’Brien Award for best quarterback. Former Buckeye Joe Burrow is another, along with Jalen Hurts.

Jeff Okudah is a finalist for the Jim Thorpe award for the best defensive back, while J.K. Dobbins is up for the Doak Walker Award for best running back.

A lot can still happen in the final two weeks, but Young will most likely win the Bednarik Award. Burrow will probably win the Davey O’Brien Award, and Chuba Hubbard of Oklahoma State seems to be the favorite for the Doak Walker Award.

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There will, of course, be plenty more awards and trophies given out at the end of the season–including the Heisman Trophy. The nine pictured in the tweet above above are some of the biggest. The last Buckeye to win one of these awards was when Malcolm Jenkins won the Jim Thorpe Award in 2008. (Pat Elflein and Billy Price did win the Dave Rimington Trophy for best center in 2016 and 2017, though.)

The last time the Buckeyes won more than one of these awards was in 1995, when Eddie George won the Doak Walker and Maxwell Awards, while Terry Glenn earned the Biletnikoff. Winning three might be tough this year, but the Buckeyes should take multiple pieces of hardware home in a few weeks.