With Ohio State pumping out first-round NFL talent at the CB position year-after-year, you’d figure that they’d have to run out of it at some point, right? Wrong. The Buckeyes have a seemingly endless amount of starting corners waiting in the wings, even if they got off to a little bit of a slow start this season.
According to PFF, Denzel Ward has a 4.9 run stop percentage and has made five stops in run defense so far in 2017. These stats are enough for him to tie for ninth among all Power-5 CBs (PFF defines a ‘stop’ as a ‘win’ for the defense).