Ryan Day isn’t ready to name any starters at offensive tackle or center yet and says there’s “a lot of work to be done here in the next few months” for the offensive line.
Going into the spring, offensive tackle was Ohio State’s biggest position of concern entering the 2023 season. With spring practices nearing their conclusion this weekend, that hasn’t changed.
Fryar has been viewed as the surest bet among them to be a starter this fall, and that still appears to be the case. But Day says the fourth-year offensive tackle, who served as the sixth man on Ohio State’s offensive line and started one game at right tackle in 2022, hasn’t been consistent enough yet for Day to anoint Fryar as the starter on the blind side yet.
While the competition at offensive tackle will continue into preseason camp, Ohio State must determine in short order whether it needs to add talent at the position via the transfer portal. The second transfer window begins this weekend, so the Buckeyes will surely keep an eye on which offensive tackles enter the portal and assess whether any of those tackles would be upgrades over their current players.
Just because Ohio State’s offensive tackles aren’t where they need to be this fall doesn’t mean the Buckeyes need to panic yet. After all, Ohio State’s offensive line had its share of struggles against the Buckeyes’ defensive line last spring, too. In particular, Paris Johnson Jr. struggled in the spring game after making an offseason move from right guard to left tackle, yet he wound up becoming a consensus All-American in the fall.
“I don't think that it's a situation where we just don't have good enough players, I don't think that's the case,” Day said. “I just think that we need to continue to play, they need to get more and more experience, they need to learn what it is to be a starter. It's one thing to be in the twos and go against the twos on defense every day in practice, and not really have to play as much in the game.
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