Burrow’s hand injury healing quickly
Quarterback Joe Burrow appears to be making a rapid recovery from a broken bone in his right hand.
“He’s throwing now, so it’s pretty close,” Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said on the Big Ten coaches conference call on Tuesday.
Burrow injured his throwing hand Aug. 22. The redshirt sophomore from Athens had surgery the next day and was termed to be out “indefinitely.”
Burrow was competing with redshirt freshman Dwayne Haskins Jr. to be J.T. Barrett’s backup when he was injured.
Burrow completed 22 of 28 passes for 226 yards and two touchdowns as Barrett’s backup last year.
Big prediction
Chase Young is listed as a third-team defensive end on Ohio State’s depth chart, but starting defensive end Jalyn Holmes believes he has already seen enough from the freshman to predict greatness.
Holmes, a senior captain, said he believes Young can be the top overall pick in the NFL draft someday.
“If he sticks to the plan for him, he will be the first pick,” Holmes said. “(He’ll be) better than Myles Garrett,” whom the Cleveland Browns took first overall in 2017.
Holmes said Young, a five-star recruit from Upper Marlboro, Maryland, has all the physical tools at 6 feet 5, 240 pounds — size, quickness, reach, strength. But it’s his intangibles that really impress him.
“You can have the speed and length, but if you’re not a competitor it really doesn’t matter,” Holmes said. “Chase Young has that competitive edge.”
Needed redemption
Hybrid back Parris Campbell had a chance to make a statement for Ohio State’s maligned deep passing game when he got open in the end zone for what would have been a 41-yard touchdown against Indiana. But Campbell tried an over-the-shoulder catch on J.T. Barrett’s perfectly thrown ball and dropped it.
“The way I tried to catch it was really dumb,” Campbell said. “I honestly don’t even know why I tried to catch it that way — over the shoulder. I couldn’t see the ball all the way into my hands. I should have framed it. It’s a mistake I made and a mistake I’m going to fix.”
Campbell said he felt he had let down his teammates, coaches and family. Redemption came two possessions later when he caught a pass on a crossing route and got a key block from Terry McLaurin for a 74-yard touchdown.
“I felt I showed a lot of character having a drop and not getting down on myself and being able to make an impact on the game after that,” he said.
He finished with six catches for 136 yards and the TD.
After playing against the Cleveland Browns’ Joe Haden for seven seasons, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger appealed to coach Mike Tomlin to get the cornerback on the other side of the rivalry.
“In the past, we’ve looked at him — at worst case — one of the top five corners in the league,” Roethlisberger said Tuesday on his weekly radio show. “I know he’s been dinged up in the last couple years, but I hope when he gets here, puts the orange off and puts the black and gold on, it rejuvenates him.”
The Miami Dolphins’ season opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will not be played in Miami on Sunday because of Hurricane Irma, but it might be moved to a neutral site, the NFL said. If it is not, it will be postponed until November, when the teams share a bye week. … The Arizona Cardinals signed guard Alex Boone to a one-year contract. The 6-foot-8, 310-pound Boone, who played at Ohio State, started 14 games for Minnesota last season.