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Ohio State football | Q&A with former Buckeye Jim Lachey

Dispatch sports reporter/columnist Rob Oller each week finds a former Buckeye for a question-and-answer session.

Jim Lachey

Age: 53

Years at Ohio State: 1981-84

Current residence: Marble Cliff

Younger fans mostly know Jim Lachey as color analyst on the Ohio State radio network -- he is working his 20th season in the booth; play-by-play voice Paul Keels has been doing it for 19 years -- but the former Buckeyes guard was protecting quarterbacks long before he was talking into a microphone. Named an All-American as a senior, Lachey went to San Diego as the 12th overall pick of the 1985 draft.