The scroll kept running at the bottom of the screen all morning Saturday during ESPN’s College GameDay. It was analyst Todd McShay’s top five for each position heading into the 2016 NFL draft, and there, listed second among the receivers, was Ohio State’s Michael Thomas.
Thomas is a junior and he has yet to declare his intentions, and he certainly did not going into a game against Minnesota at Ohio Stadium.
But being a fourth-year player who spent an extra season out of high school attending Fork Union Military Academy, Thomas — five seasons out of high school in Woodland Hills, Calif.