“Awakening” is the word Josh Proctor used to sum up his six-year career at Ohio State.
It’s a fitting one.
Despite a top-100 ranking in the 247Sports composite and brief flashes in his early seasons, for five years, Proctor’s career lay sleeping. Through injuries, benchings and off-the-field hardships that are unknown, he stuck with it at Ohio State until a sixth-year breakout season.
“Just an awakening,” Proctor said. “Finding yourself and just growing, maturing over the whole process.”
In an age of player movement that sees fewer and fewer stories like Proctor’s, there’s a certain inspiration his coaches believe others can take from his journey.