At some point in the next three weeks as Ohio State’s season-opener on Aug. 31 against Florida Atlantic nears, diminishing time will force Ryan Day and Greg Studrawa to make a decision at right tackle.
Branden Bowen or Nicholas Petit-Frere.
The redshirt senior or the redshirt freshman. The 6-foot-7, 315-pound lineman who can play multiple positions or the 6-foot-5, 295-pound lineman destined for offensive tackle. The one-time right guard who had three surgeries to repair a broken leg suffered in 2017 or the tackle who needed to eat 8,000 calories each day in the offseason to gain enough weight to play.