We’re just a little over a week away from breaking the seal on the 2021 Ohio State football season and the excitement is palpable. It should be another run at a Big Ten championship and a potential spot in the College Football Playoff, but there’s a lot of things that need to fall in place.
One of those puzzle pieces that need to fit nicely is the very best players playing like the very best players on this year’s Buckeye squad. Sure, some will rise up and be household names when it’s all said and done, but you need the stars to make a championship constellation in big-time college football.
Just before the season gets underway with some college football this week, ESPN has produced its “Top 100 Players for 2021” and there is plenty of scarlet and gray represented. Five OSU players in fact appear on the list, and you could probably make the case for more.
Regardless, here are the five players wearing scarlet and gray that ESPN projects to be the best in the college football game for this fall, and what the staff of the worldwide leader in sports programming says about each.
