During the 2017 Ohio State football season, Joe Burrow was the Buckeyes’ third-string quarterback while Chase Young and Jeff Okudah were true freshmen who played only occasionally.
Less than three years later, they’re set to be three of the top picks – maybe the top three picks – in the 2020 NFL draft.
While Burrow went on to finish his collegiate career at LSU, where he led the Tigers to a national championship and won the Heisman Trophy, Young and Okudah became superstars in Columbus. Both of them were unanimous All-Americans in 2019, when they led an Ohio State defense that led the nation in yards allowed per game, and established themselves as consistently dominant players who might now be the surest bets among all players in this year’s NFL draft class.