Ryan Day gives latest on Ohio State's quarterback competition

The Ohio State Buckeyes didn’t find their starting quarterback this spring, as Kyle McCord and Devin Brown will continue to battle for the team’s starting job during fall camp. Camp starts this week for the Buckeyes, and before they strapped things up, head coach Ryan Day opened up about his quarterback competition.

“You just never know how it’s all gonna shake,” Day admitted. “We’ve had this situation before, we kind of mentioned this last week a little bit, going back with CJ (Stroud), with Justin (Fields), Dwayne (Haskins) where after the first couple weeks of fall practice somebody emerged and then we went with the starter.”

There’s no doubt that there have consistently been big shoes to fill at the quarterback position in Columbus, and they may be bigger than they’ve ever been now after Stroud became the highest drafted quarterback in school history this year.

But Day remembers that even when Stroud became the team’s starter two seasons ago that the process was unique and took time.

“But that evaluation continued into the season, you remember that first year with CJ. It was into the third game he kind of had that shoulder issue, and then Kyle played in that game, and then CJ came back in. So you just never know how things are going to go, but in an ideal world you’d like to have somebody emerge after the first week or two,” Day said. “And we usually have that scrimmage on that second week on that Saturday and usually have a pretty good feel.”

Day even reflected on his college quarterback days at New Hampshire under then-offensive coordinator Chip Kelly, further emphasizing that every quarterback competition is different.

“I remember when I was playing college football and we had a competition between me and somebody who was a couple years ahead of me and it went all the way down to that last scrimmage, and then it kind of went into those first few games,” Day explained. “I was named the starter and then continued to be the starter, so every situation’s different.”

McCord has been viewed as the favorite to win the job as he enters his third season in Ohio State’s offense and with Brown missing the final four practices of the spring including the spring game. But regardless, Day simply would like someone to emerge during fall camp and do it early.

“But again, if you’re asking for an ideal situation you’d love for somebody to emerge here the first couple weeks and then they’re taking a majority of the reps with the ones as you head into the game week,” Day said.