Ohio State Holds Key To Fixing Recent Rushing Struggles

You wouldn’t realize it from the ultimate scores, however Ohio State’s working sport has not been the identical during the last couple of weeks because it was firstly of the season.

The Buckeyes tallied fewer dashing yards than their opponent within the 54-10 win over Iowa on October 22 and the 44-31 win at Penn State final weekend, however head coach Ryan Day doesn’t imagine it’s the results of relying too closely on particular units, significantly the pistol.

“When you’re wanting on the numbers and also you say, ‘Effectively, each time you’re in a sure formation you’re not getting something out of it,’ then yeah, transfer on,” Day mentioned at his press convention on Tuesday.

Day recalled a play wherein Ohio State tried the run from underneath middle moderately than the shotgun, leading to a lack of yardage, saying it was as a consequence of Penn State’s protection moderately than the Buckeyes tipping their hand.

“The one from underneath middle was very nicely blocked at it was a very clear play,” Day mentioned. “That’s not the explanation why – as a result of we line up within the pistol. (It’s) that groups are ganging up by hook or by crook.”

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A person indicator of the Buckeyes’ struggles to run the ball may be present in Ohio State’s working backs, sophomore TreVeyon Henderson and redshirt sophomore Miyan Williams.

Henderson has been his group’s main rusher for the previous three weeks, going again to the Buckeyes’ 49-20 win over Michigan State in East Lansing. Henderson earned 118 yards on the bottom in that sport, however within the two weeks after in opposition to the Hawkeyes and Nittany Lions, completed with solely 38 and 78 yards, respectively. 

Williams, in the meantime, rushed for 189 yards on 21 carries and scored a record-tying 5 touchdowns in opposition to Rutgers, however was inactive the subsequent weekend in opposition to the Spartans. Williams returned the next week in opposition to Iowa, wherein he ran for 19 yards on 10 makes an attempt. 

Moreover for Henderson, the outing in opposition to Iowa is the second-fewest yards in a single sport of his Ohio State profession, behind final 12 months’s season-opening win at Minnesota, when completed with simply 15.

Each Henderson and Williams had been coping with accidents nevertheless, to their decrease physique and hand, respectively. Henderson’s sidelined him from the sport at Michigan State whereas Williams’ took him out of fee for the second half of final weekend’s contest at Penn State.

Ohio State senior offensive lineman Dawand Jones was requested his opinion on the state of the run sport throughout post-practice media availability on Wednesday, answering that the one individuals who may repair the dashing points had been the gamers themselves. 

“I might say we’re in a great spot,” Jones mentioned. “We all the time acquired the time for enchancment however the one factor we are able to do is go to follow and get higher.”

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