From Thursday night to Saturday this week, at least nine Ohio State players are expected to hear their names called as NFL Draft selections.
Encouraging prospective Buckeyes to flip on the TV and watch the players who have been developed in Columbus take center stage is about as perfect and easy a recruiting pitch as there is.
Basically every top-500 recruit – and hundreds more ranked lower than that – has an ultimate dream of reaching the NFL. So, really, that year-after-year success of sending players into the draft, helping them get multi-million dollar contracts and become All-Pros at their position all sells itself.