Josh Myers is paying tribute to his late grandfather by changing his number for Ohio State’s game against Indiana on Saturday.
Instead of his usual No. 71, Ohio State’s starting center is wearing No. 50 – the same number his “Papaw,” Donnie Myers, wore during his own football career at Miamisburg High School – for one game only against the Hoosiers.
Myers has already carried with him a piece of his grandfather, who died in 2009 after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease, throughout his own career at Miamisburg and now at Ohio State. Before the start of each of his football seasons, his grandmother Beverly Myers – who he calls “Mimi” – has cut out a square from her late husband’s high school jersey and sent it to her grandson with a letter, and Josh has placed that square in his sock to wear during every game.