{"id":440152,"date":"2026-01-31T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/440152\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T04:00:08","slug":"ohio-state-will-be-without-two-important-players-during-spring-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/440152\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State will be without two important players during spring practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BXLSAOECPBG5VATUFH2TPDUD4I\">COLUMBUS, Ohio &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/osu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/osu\/\">Ohio State<\/a> will be without the top of its running back room when it starts the spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PZ6R2BZ5PVBMDELOK2ESKOXAGU\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/osu\/2025\/09\/who-was-the-breakout-star-from-ohio-states-win-vs-ohio-a-talented-freshman-from-cleveland.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bo Jackson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/osu\/2025\/10\/ohio-state-footballs-running-game-is-improving-with-a-freshman-moving-up-the-depth-chart.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Isaiah West<\/a> are expected to be the RB1 and RB2 for the Buckeyes in 2026, but neither will be available for the 15 spring practices. Head coach Ryan Day announced during a radio hit that both will be recovering from offseason shoulder surgeries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CUQH2T43CVAGHIZD7VCK3ESJVE\">Jackson led OSU with 179 carries for 1,090 yards amd 14 touchdowns along with 22 catches for 161 yards and two scores as a freshman. West turned 59 carries into 310 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4ZR6USZB2VBN5MQ7CKYXZY3H2M\">The absence of the two sophomore backs creates plenty of opportunity to build depth behind them with transfer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/osu\/2026\/01\/ohio-state-football-lands-former-sec-running-back-out-of-the-transfer-portal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ja\u2019Kobi Jackson<\/a>, sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/osu\/2024\/12\/four-star-2025-running-back-chooses-ohio-state-over-georgia-on-national-signing-day.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Turbo Rogers<\/a> and incoming freshmen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/osu\/2025\/06\/what-four-star-running-back-favour-akihs-commitment-means-for-ohio-state-football.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Favour Akih<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/osu\/2025\/12\/four-star-athlete-legend-bey-flips-decision-from-ohio-state-to-tennessee.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Legend Bey<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WR55SAL5VBGBLAFCPWN6EHB5VM\">Day also voiced his excitement, especially with Bey, whom the Buckeyes flipped from Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"36I4EPWQ6VC3DLFE3CIA3UF2A4\">\u201cHe\u2019s dynamite,\u201d Day said. \u201cI\u2019ve called him poor man\u2019s Tyreke Hill. He\u2019s lightning in a bottle, and he can do a lot of things for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio &#8212; Ohio State will be without the top of its running back room when it starts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-440152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}