Ohio State Football: Urban Meyer recruits go 1-2-3 in NFL Draft
The Ohio State football team and former head coach Urban Meyer had a lot of success last night in the NFL Draft.
Former Buckeye head coach Urban Meyer had a very good night on Thursday. He saw three of his former recruits go 1-2-3 in the NFL Draft and has a chance to have upwards of 10 total former Ohio State football players be taken by NFL clubs this weekend.
Joe Burrow, the former four-star recruit for Ohio State, was a hidden gem found by former offensive coordinator Tom Herman and head coach Urban Meyer as part of the 2015 recruiting class. He was chosen first overall by his hometown team, the Cincinnati Bengals.
We all know the story by now as during the 2018 offseason with an open quarterback competition with Dwayne Haskins, Burrow broke his hand and that gave Haskin’s the leg up on the starting job. The rest is history as Haskins had a record-breaking 2018 campaign on his way to becoming a first round NFL Draft pick and Burrow transferred to LSU after earning a degree from Ohio State, winning a national title and Heisman trophy along the way while in Baton Rouge.
Chase Young also went to his hometown team as he was chosen No. 2 overall by the Washington Redskins. And finally, stud cornerback Jeff Okudah went No. 3 to the Detroit Lions. That is an unbelievable feat for coach Meyer and his staff in having coached the top three draft picks in this draft class.
This feat just shows how great of recruiters Urban Meyer and recruiting director Mark Pantoni are. And finding the No. 1 overall pick out of the No. 280 overall player in the 2015 class speaks volume onto itself.
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Ohio State simply has it all. Recruiting, developing and winning. It’s a great time to be a Buckeye.