Ohio State’s 2021 season was bookended by perhaps the two most gruesome injuries suffered by any Buckeye all year. Eerily similar in nature, the incidents also afflicted the same position room.
During the second half of Ohio State’s Week 2 loss to Oregon, Josh Proctor was carted off the field at Ohio Stadium in an air cast after his right leg was rolled up on near the end zone. Proctor didn’t see the field again all season, as the Buckeyes’ starting free safety sustained a leg fracture.
In the second quarter of the Buckeyes’ Rose Bow win over Utah, Lathan Ransom snapped his leg during kickoff coverage in a sequence that threatened to jeopardize the start of his junior season – if not more.