To feel comfortable continuing to play the tight end position that he’s played for Ohio State for most of the past two seasons, Cade Stover needed one more chance to play on defense.
Stover, who told Eleven Warriors in February that he missed playing linebacker “every day” for the past two years, got the opportunity to return to the linebacker position in the Rose Bowl, and performed well enough in that game – in which he recorded six tackles – that it appeared he would remain on the defensive side of the ball entering this spring.