Malcolm Rodriguez was drafted by the Detroit Lions. Devin Harper by the Dallas Cowboys. Christian Holmes by the Washington Commanders. The staple pieces of OSU’s 2021 defense, by and large, are gone.
And yet with about a week of fall training camp underway in Stillwater, America, the 2022 defense, retooled with several new starters and orchestrated, by the way, by a brand-new defensive coordinator in Derek Mason, has the trappings to be just as good (or close to as good) as the one that will — for now! — go down as the best defensive unit in program history.