Ohio State 2016-2018 OL - Malcolm Pridgeon

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    What are you talking about? Micheal Jordan is the best guard of all time.
     
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    Urban Meyer said Malcolm Pridgeon isn’t quite ready to play yet but “He’s going to be a very good player here."
     
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    Malcolm Pridgeon, Redshirt Junior

    Pridgeon had an excellent chance to start last season at right tackle for the Buckeyes but then went down with a knee injury that kept him on the sideline until bowl practice. It came shortly after defensive end Darius Slade tore his Achilles, another season-ending injury.

    “Those are two tough ones,” Meyer said in August, before calling the depth on the offensive line "a concern."

    “That's where Matt Burrell, Demetrius Knox have really got to come on, really come on and then Branden Bowen has got a long ways to go, but he's going to come on too,” Meyer said. “So you have to get depth there.”

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    As we saw in the Fiesta Bowl, the depth never came.

    “The first place you always start with is pass protection,” Meyer said recently when asked about the passing game. “Obviously, that was not a strength of ours last year.”

    Pridgeon is back 100 percent and participated fully in Ohio State's first two practices. The fact that he is listed at 6-foot-7 and 315 pounds made it a little surprising that Meyer mention Pridgeon as a candidate to play guard. But with Jones and Prince back to man the tackle spots, it makes some sense.

    Ohio State will play its best five offensive linemen regardless. It showed that last year when Jordan lined up between Jones and Elflein at left guard. He, like Pridgeon, is 6-foot-7. Quarterback J.T. Barrett is only 6-foot-2, so throwing lanes can be tough to find behind all those big bodies.

    But Pridgeon is a junior college transfer, something Ohio State usually doesn't take unless it believes it can be an impact player right away. Pridgeon's injury prevented that from happening in 2016. This spring offers a fresh slate.
     
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    Pridgeon has been inconsistent this spring but has shown the talent level at time to be a key contributor..............
     
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