Haskell Garrett wasn’t supposed to be on the field when Ohio State played its penultimate game of the 2021 regular season against Michigan State.
Garrett had been playing hurt throughout the second half of the season after spraining his ankle in the Buckeyes’ sixth game of the year against Maryland, and by the Buckeyes’ 11th game of the year against the Spartans, it had gotten bad enough that team doctors told him he shouldn’t play. But Garrett, who famously guaranteed that Ohio State was “gonna whoop their ass” at the pregame Skull Session before the Buckeyes’ 56-7 win over the Spartans, refused to let the injury keep him off the field.