Ohio State's offense had just picked up a few quick first downs in the team portion of practice when Billy Price noticed Dre'Mont Jones bent over, winded, with hands on hips.
“I was messing with the guys, I told Dre’Mont, ‘You guys are puffing a little bit too hard over there,’” the senior center said on Thursday. “He said, ‘You guys are running way too fast.’”
The Buckeyes are barely into their 2017 version of spring practice, currently on the University-mandated spring break after — to use Urban Meyer's term — "getting their brains kicked in" during weight room sessions by Mickey Marotti and his strength staff this winter.