Ohio State football: Top 3 Buckeyes to leave the program

This is the one that might hurt Buckeye fans the most. Joe Burrow was a 4-star recruit out of Athens High School back in 2014. He had to sit behind J.T. Barrett for two years after redshirting and finally got a chance to compete for the starting job in 2018.

Burrow broke his hand in 2017 and that set him behind in offseason workouts. Even though he played well in the spring game in 2018, it was clear that Dwayne Haskins was going to win the starting job. Burrow then decided to move on to LSU where he played for two seasons.

His first season there was extremely average. He only threw for 2,894 yards while adding 16 touchdowns to 5 interceptions. It looked like Ohio State made the right decision after Haskins was a Heisman finalist and then a first-round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft.

Last season though was a completely different story. Burrow had perhaps the greatest college football season ever, throwing for 5,671 yards, an absurd 60 touchdowns to just 6 picks. He was a runaway Heisman trophy winner and led LSU to a national championship.

Would Burrow have done the same thing had he stayed at Ohio State? Would the Buckeyes have been better off letting Burrow start instead of Haskins? These are questions the fans have been asking over and over, and those questions aren’t likely to stop anytime soon.

We will never know what Burrow could have done with the Buckeyes had he stayed. For my money, he would have lit up the field in 2019 and made that Buckeye team even more lethal. But he is the greatest “what if” in Ohio State football history.