When the Ohio high school state football playoffs began in November of 2014, Robert Landers was a senior defensive tackle at Huber Heights Wayne High School committed to play college football at West Virginia.
A couple of weeks after Wayne’s playoff run ended following a state championship appearance, Landers flipped his commitment to Ohio State.
What happened during that five-week stretch is the reason why.
“He was just unblockable,” Wayne head coach Jay Minton recalled. “We played [Cincinnati] Moeller that year, we played some really powerful teams, and every one of them said this kid was just phenomenal, that you just couldn’t block him.