Monday, June 22, 2009

Its A Bird, It's A Plane, No It's... Terrelle Pryor

The Ohio State Buckeyes have always been known to have a powerful football team leading the nation in multiple years. In the past couple of years OSU and the Big Ten Division have been looked down upon due mainly to Ohio States losses in the BSC bowls against Florida, and LSU. Now many people say that Ohio State stands no chance because they just lost 7 of their top players to the NFL. Though people have doubts their is one man who everyone including OSU is putting their faith in...Terrelle Pryor. Terrlle Pryor played high school Football and Basketball for the Jeannette Jayhawks in Pennsylvania. Weighing in at 240 Lbs and standing at 6'6" Terrelle soon became the unanimous #1 football prospect of the 2008 recruiting class, and the most impressive feat, he was the 13th Basketball prospect in the nation. Running a whopping 4.2 forty yard dash, every college knew that he was the pride and glory of the class and of the future. In his first year at Ohio State he did not get a chance to start until the 4th week. He started out running the ball alot and not always looking out for the open man, as weeks past college football annalists began to point out his ability to make drastic changes to his game play in little time, within 3 weeks he began to pass more, and use pump fakes, and run less. What stunned many people was the fact that he lead OSU to a BCS game, the Fiesta Bowl against Texas. Although they lost, he played extremely well, he also got a receiving touchdown. In an article earlier this year the coach of the Buckeyes, Jim Tressell, said that this year they will begin to utilize more of Pryor's athletic and physical ability, sending him on more routes for receptions. Although some skeptics stand in the way between Terrelle Pryor and a BSC match up, his raw athletic ability and talent are sure to convince the naysayers.

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