With his game-winning halfcourt buzzer-beater in Gonzaga’s Final Four win over UCLA on Saturday night, Jalen Suggs became the face of this year’s NCAA Tournament.
Had Suggs chosen to take his athletic career in a different direction, though, he could be one of the quarterbacks competing for Ohio State’s starting job right now.
The 2019 winner of Minnesota’s Mr. Football award, Suggs received offers to play quarterback from some of the top college programs in the country, also including Georgia, Iowa, Michigan State and Nebraska, among others. He showed particular interest in Ohio State, though, even coming to an Ohio State football camp in 2018, where he spent the day working with Ohio State’s then-quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator, Ryan Day.