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Starting interior offensive line for Minnesota?
First he was a breakout performer in spring practice.
Then Josh Fryar was a fixture at seemingly every summer event teaching the finer points of offensive line play to young campers.
The next step for the redshirt freshman is carrying that momentum into training camp. And by the time September rolls around, maybe any shock will have worn off and seeing Fryar in the starting lineup might just be the expectation for the versatile big man.
There is a lot of work to do, of course. And there might not be any competition more heated than the one Ohio State has for what would appear to be the final open spot on an offensive line that could develop into the best in the nation.
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.
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