New Ohio State director of player development C.J. Barnett will be paid $110,000 while analysts Paul Rhoads and Todd Fitch will each make $48,000 in 2021, per their offer letters obtained by Eleven Warriors through a public records request.
Barnett replaces Ryan Stamper, who had a salary of $178,447 for his final year as director of player development in 2020, his ninth year in the role, according to Ohio State's employee salary database.
The analyst positions now held by Rhoads and Fitch – in which Fitch will assist Ohio State's coaching staff with offensive game planning, while Rhoads will do the same with defensive game planning – are newly created positions, an investment athletic director Gene Smith said Ohio State made because he believes having the right people is the key to the Buckeyes' success.