Malcolm Pridgeon knows that getting what he wants doesn’t always come easy.
While Pridgeon had the opportunity to play football at Ohio State, that opportunity didn’t come right away – he first spent two years at Nassau Community College, on Long Island near his hometown of Central Islip, New York.
Then, after Pridgeon arrived at Ohio State as a highly touted recruit from the junior college ranks, he suffered a knee injury that forced him to redshirt his first season as a Buckeye. In his second season as a Buckeye, Pridgeon competed for the starting right guard job but didn’t win the battle, relegating him to spend most of his time on the bench for another year.