While Ohio State’s most highly touted recruits often don’t redshirt and its star players often leave school early for the NFL, the most important players on the team often include fifth-year seniors.
That’s certainly been the case for the past couple years. Ohio State’s top player leaders in 2017 – quarterback J.T. Barrett, center Billy Price and defensive end Tyquan Lewis – were all fifth-year seniors. The revered trio of wide receivers who led last season’s team – Parris Campbell, Terry McLaurin and Johnnie Dixon – also finished their careers as fifth-year seniors.
Ohio State is set to have more than a dozen fifth-year seniors on its 2019 roster, and they should make a big impact once again.