J.T. Barrett has been through this once before.
Around this time last year, Barrett and Cardale Jones were competing for a spot: Ohio State’s backup quarterback. Braxton Miller was slated to be entering his fourth year as the Buckeyes’ starter, and the winner of the competition between Barrett and Jones would be named No. 2 behind the two-time Big Ten Player of the Year.
Barrett won that battle with Jones, and when Miller went down with a season-ending injury just 12 days before Ohio State opened its 2014 season, the then redshirt-freshman was thrust into the national spotlight.