INDIANAPOLIS – For the second time in three years, Ohio State’s starting quarterback is battling a knee injury entering the Big Ten Championship Game.
Justin Fields will be playing on a sprained MCL for the second week in a row after initially suffering the injury on a sack late in the fourth quarter against Penn State and aggravating that injury during the third quarter of last week’s game against Michigan. In order to protect his injured knee, he’ll wear the bigger brace that he finished last week’s game with for the entire game on Saturday.
Fields said this week that it might affect his mobility, but Ohio State coach Ryan Day doesn’t expect the injury to have a major impact on the plays he calls for Fields in Saturday’s Big Ten Championship Game.