COLUMBUS \u2014 Ohio State defensive back Earl Little Jr. is already making his presence felt in the new-look Buckeyes secondary.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s also making the most of his first few practices inside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. <\/p>\n
Little has zipped through the learning curve that came with going from Florida State to the Ohio State program, shedding his black stripe after just five practices with the Buckeyes. The black stripe removal, of course, signifies that Little is doing the right things early in his time in Columbus. <\/p>\n
He was joined by LSU transfer wide receiver Kyle Parker as transfer additions to lose their stripe after practice Saturday.<\/p>\n
Earl Little Jr. transferred in after a couple of years at Florida State. He initially went to Alabama out of high school.<\/p>\n
The Miami native played in 36 games for Florida State, making 21 starts while demonstrating the kind of positional flexibility that\u2019s become invaluable in modern college football. He lined up at safety, nickel and boundary corner during his career in Tallahassee, showing the football intelligence and physical tools to handle multiple roles. He began his career at Alabama, playing two seasons for Nick Saban. He also played alongside Ohio State captain Brandon Inniss in his high school days at American Heritage (Ft. Lauderdale.) High School.<\/p>\n
Now with the Buckeyes, Little is beginning to turn heads.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s going to hit,\u201d said Ohio State superstar wide receiver Jeremiah Smith, who goes against Little every day in practice.\u00a0\u201cHe\u2019s going to make plays.\u00a0He\u2019s going to be very special for us. That\u2019s all I can say.\u00a0Don\u2019t want to put too much out there, but he\u2019s special.\u201d<\/p>\n
With that in mind, it\u2019s safe to assume Earl Little Jr. is having a good start to his Ohio State career. That\u2019s evident in that he lost his black stripe Saturday after just five practices with the Buckeyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS \u2014 Ohio State defensive back Earl Little Jr. is already making his presence felt in the new-look…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[96559,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-210879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-earl-little-jr-22-american-heritage","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}