Now that the decision appears to have been completely made, the only real question is:
What took so long?
The Buckeyes had been having internal discussions about the benefits of Chambers moving to linebacker dating back to the winter offseason program. Teammates were watching his high-school highlight reel and seeing a game-changing weapon on defense, a guy with two years of experience playing at safety and a couple more in the box at linebacker. Just about everybody could already see how steep the climb was going to be to earn carries in a loaded backfield, particularly after some of the ball-security struggles for Chambers last season. And the need couldn’t have been more clear for the Silver Bullets when a long-snapper was pressed into action just so the Buckeyes would have enough linebackers for the spring game.