“Excitement” is always a fun term to use when it comes to offensive line play.
It’s counterintuitive to the casual football viewer to talk about the position that way. Calling a one-handed Jeremiah Smith catch exciting is easy, calling a clinical pass-blocking rep that set the preceding throw up exciting is more difficult to explain.
But there’s an undeniable excitement about Ohio State’s interior offensive line considering the quartet of experienced pieces they return to the guard and center positions.
“Extremely excited,” center Carson Hinzman said. “Trying to just build that culture back up again, like what we had last year.