While the primary purpose of Big Ten Media Days is to look forward to the upcoming season, it’s also an opportunity to look back at how each player got there.
Before each of the players selected to represent their schools at this year’s event became stars for their current teams, they were once high school football players who had to choose where they wanted to go to school.
C.J. Stroud, Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Ronnie Hickman all chose to become Buckeyes despite being out-of-state prospects who held offers from the top programs in their home states and many others throughout the country.