Ohio State Football: Trey Sermon is betting on Ryan Day

The Ohio State football team has had recent success in sending running backs to the NFL. Trey Sermon is hoping for more of the same.

The moment that Master Teague went down during the Ohio State football team’s first spring practice, the Buckeyes were in trouble. With Marcus Crowley already recovering from a major knee injury that cost him the end of last season, the Buckeyes were down to one healthy tailback.

If Ryan Day were to be honest, Ohio State was probably already in the market for a graduate transfer running back before Teague went down. His injury only sped up the process. Enter Trey Sermon, grad-transfer from Oklahoma.

Here is what Ryan Day said on a recent conference call, via Eleven Warriors:

"“Master (Teague) getting hurt here in the spring put us behind the eight ball a little bit in terms of depth and Marcus (Crowley) coming off the ACL.” He says Ohio State saw what Sermon could do when it played against him and Oklahoma in 2017. People the coaches have talked to, Day says, have said he’s impressive off the field as well. “We have been very, very impressed with our conversations with him.”"

Seeing a potential chance to start on a national title contender had to intrigue Sermon. But the more obvious answer to why he came to Columbus has to lay in massive amounts of recent success that Ohio State running backs have had in the NFL.

Beanie Wells, Carlos Hyde, Ezekiel Elliott and JK Dobbins were all first or second round draft picks over the course of the last decade. Sermon hopes to have a chance of joining them next year. In the mean time, he is betting on Ryan Day’s offense to show his skill set.

And if we have learned anything from Ryan Day’s offense, it is that you can expect to see the running back position featured on every Saturday. It is a staple of Day’s pro-styled system and it is exactly what Ohio State needs in order to keep quarterback Justin Fields healthy and upright for the stretch run of next season.

With Sermon already talked about as being a late day-two or early day-three NFL draft pick by some media outlets, Sermon is hoping that a healthy season as Ohio State’s starting tailback can solidify himself as a top-end prospect.