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Former Ohio State QB Jack Miller III reportedly retires from college football
A former Ohio State quarterback has reportedly ended his college football career.
According to 247Sports, Jack Miller III, who spent the 2023 season at Florida, is no longer with the Gators program, and will not transfer to another college football team/
Miller graduated from Florida in the fall of 2023 after not making an appearance for the Gators this past season. Miller made his first collegiate start for Florida to end the 2022 season, completing 13 of 22 passes for 180 yards in Florida’s 30-3 loss to Oregon State in the Las Vegas Bowl.
Miller missed the 2022 regular season with an injury.
Miller was a four-star commitment in Ohio State’s 2020 class. He was one of two quarterbacks in the Buckeyes’ class along with four-star C.J. Stroud, who went on to become a two-time Heisman Trophy finalist and the No. 2 overall pick of the 2023 NFL draft.
In two seasons at Ohio State, Miller had one career touchdown — a 2-yard run in his first career college football game to cap off a 52-17 win against Nebraska Oct. 24, 2020. He completed seven of his 14 pass attempts for 101 yards. He also added 22 rushing yards on seven carries.
While at Ohio State, Miller was suspended after being arrested and charged with operating a vehicle while impaired.
Miller entered the transfer portal after the 2021 regular season.
Miller was the No. 13 pro-style quarterback and No. 334 player overall in the 2020 class per 247Sports’ composite rankings.
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers and former Ohio State wide receiver Emeka Egbuka is defending former Buckeye Carnell Tate.
Tate has received some scrutiny after he was selected as the first wide receiver in the 2026 NFL Draft, despite not having been Ohio State’s top receiver target in college. Appearing on the “Up and Adams” show May 6, Egbuka shut down the narrative that meant Tate would not find success with the Tennessee Titans.
“I mean, we can see the correlation,” Egbuka said. “That was the same talk that was about me when I was coming out of the draft. At the end of the day, it’s all semantics. If you can play football, you can play football, and Carnell Tate can play football.”
Selected with the No. 20 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, Egbuka finished his final college season with 1,011 receiving yards, more than 300 fewer than Jeremiah Smith in his freshman year. Egbuka led the team in receptions with 81 compared to Smith’s 76 catches.
With Buccaneers wide receivers Mike Evans and Chris Godwin Jr. playing fewer than 10 games during the 2025 season due to injuries, Egbuka led the team in receiving yards with 938. He finished fifth in 2025 AP Offensive Rookie of the Year voting.
Tate, the No. 4 overall pick in this year’s draft, was called a “talented player” by New York Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers during Bleacher Report’s draft night coverage on April 23, but Nabers questioned Tate’s selection.
“I don’t see him being a number one,” Nabers said. “He hasn’t been the number one on the team he’s been on. You have to be a number one on the team that you’re coming from to be a number one receiver on the team you’re going to. … You can’t be the second.”
Green Bay Packers edge rusher Micah Parsons, also on the broadcast, quickly dismissed Nabers’ statement by bringing up that former Buckeyes receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba was a second option while in college.
“You said you got to be number one on the team that you’re coming from. … [Jaxon Smith-Njigba] was not number one. Bro, you got to understand that the number one [Ohio State] player will be the number one pick in the draft next year. … Give him a chance to fulfill the role,” Parsons said.
Tate finished the 2025 season with 875 receiving yards and nine touchdowns, second to Smith with 1,243 receiving yards and 12 touchdowns.
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