Justin Fields chatted casually with Dwayne Haskins as he lofted an effortless spiral down the field Saturday morning prior to his first public appearance in a Buckeyes uniform. The two quarterbacks -- a record-setting, Heisman-contending, soon-to-be NFL millionaire and the 19-year-old newcomer expected to replace him -- were just shooting the breeze.
Above them, on the giant video board at Ohio Stadium, a montage tribute to the 2018 football season was reaching its conclusion. The closing scene showed the inside of a victorious Rose Bowl locker room, where Urban Meyer dropped a red lanyard holding his coaching whistle around Ryan Day's neck and pronounced Day the new head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes.