Ohio State football’s Jaxon Smith-Njigba playing trash can basketball on eve of possible return

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State soccer offered its strongest trace but that Jaxon Smith-Njigba will play once more Saturday by showcasing his Friday afternoon trash can basketball abilities.

The crew launched a 16-second video on its Twitter account Friday afternoon. One of many first clips exhibits Smith-Njigba — who has not performed since Sept. 17 as a consequence of a hamstring harm — flying in to “dunk” a mini basketball right into a trash can.

Official phrase on Smith-Njigba’s availability will come when OSU releases its standing report at 9 a.m. Saturday. The junior receiver appeared to apply totally on Wednesday and was seen taking further reps off the soccer throwing machine afterward.

Smith-Njigba suffered a hamstring harm within the season opener towards Notre Dame. He missed the Arkansas State sport and returned to play towards Toledo. That was the final time he has been lively on the sphere on Ohio Stadium — aside from a pregame exercise previous to the Oct. 1 sport towards Rutgers.

Ohio State presumably wouldn’t permit the Huge Ten’s single-season receiving yardage record-holder to leap round over his teammates if there was heightened threat of re-aggravating the harm.

Watch the video clip above and choose for your self whether or not Smith-Njigba’s hamstring appear wholesome sufficient to face Iowa on Saturday.

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