Justin Fields will most likely start against Florida Atlantic on Aug. 31.
But Ryan Day hasn’t declared the Georgia transfer as the replacement for Dwayne Haskins just yet, and he didn’t seem particularly close to doing so when speaking to the media after Ohio State’s first spring practice of 2019. Instead, the first-time head coach fully embraced a quarterback competition between Fields and redshirt freshman Matthew Baldwin.
“It's going to be a battle,” Day said on Wednesday. “In the way that we kind of look at is this is spring practice, but it's the first practice leading up to the first game of the season.