As high as expectations were for Julian Fleming, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Gee Scott Jr. and Mookie Cooper entering their first spring practices at Ohio State, it would have been easy for the highly touted quartet to underperform.
That’s not what happened.
If you watched Ohio State’s opening practice of 2020, as reporters who cover the team had the opportunity to do on Monday, you wouldn’t have guessed that they were true freshmen who should still be high school seniors and had never participated in a collegiate practice before. Because that’s not what they looked like.
“I think all four of them really have a chance to play and be successful,” Day said after Monday’s practice.