Time to panic at RB for Buckeyes, or false alarm?

Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

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🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Buckeye Nation collectively freaked out on Tuesday when it was revealed running back Master Teague suffered an Achilles injury on the first day of spring ball. Many immediately assumed the worst and figured Teague was out for the season. However, might the injury be just a strain and not a complete tear of the Achilles? The People's Champ, Matt Baxendell, joins Dave Biddle for today's show to discuss Teague's situation, plus: * Should Ohio State go after 2020 RB recruit Zach Evans, who is still unsigned? * Might OSU look in the portal to get a running back if Teague is expected to miss part of the season? * What an opportunity for Steele Chambers to show what he's got this spring. * When will Marcus Crowley return healthy? All of that and more is coming your way on a RB-themed edition of the Wednesday 5ish. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Thank you. Good morning, Buck-noters. Good morning, Buck-Noders welcome to The Bucknuts Morning Five here on Wednesday, March 4th, 2020.
0:32.9	I am Dave Biddle, very happy to join by the People's Champ, Matt Baxendell.
0:37.5	Bax, Buckeye Nation, freaked out yesterday when the news was revealed that Master
0:42.3	Teague suffered an Achilles injury at the very end of the first day of spring drills.
0:47.0	I think everybody assumed your Achilles injury, you assumed ruptured Achilles out for the year, even though Justin Hilliard and tough
0:53.8	borrowed in the last couple years suffered partially torn
0:56.2	Achilles they were able to come back I think everybody assumed those guys were
0:58.6	going to be out but anyway now news is started to trickle out that it might just be strain.
1:04.0	What are you hearing?
1:05.4	Just your thoughts on Master Teague's injury and what might occur here?
1:09.2	All right, so first things first, the Achilles injury is certainly not a good thing. The comparisons that you gave
1:17.0	a moment ago to Tough Borland and Justin Hilliard, we all know they came back, but they didn't
1:21.4	come back as anything resembling
1:23.7	their full-speed selves. Port-Off Borland gutted it out two years ago in a year
1:29.0	where everybody was just there there was no bigger whipping boy that year for Ohio State's
1:33.3	defensive problems and tough Borland right and it really wasn't fair because he
1:37.5	got us most of his step back last year and he was better right which of course me
1:41.8	saying tough Borland did anything well last year is going to cause a certain segment
1:44.6	of people to lose their minds anyways.
1:47.2	But the truth is that an Achilles injury to a running back is going to severely slower running
1:51.2	back if it's anything more than a spring.
1:53.4	Now, right now we don't know that it's any worse than a spring.
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