Buckeyes veteran wide receiver Jayden Ballard will transfer
COLUMBUS — Ohio State veteran wide receiver Jayden Ballard will enter the transfer portal when it opens next Monday, he tells On3’s Hayes Fawcett.
Ballard will have one year of eligibility remaining wherever he chooses to go.
The veteran wide receiver was ranked as the No. 84 overall player in the class of 2021. He was the No. 14 wide receiver and No. 4 player in the state of Ohio for his class.
Ballard had 11 catches for 177 yards and one touchdown in his four seasons at Ohio State. He earned the starting kick-returning job for the Buckeyes to open the season before losing that job to various other skill players for Ohio State.
Ohio State kept waiting for Ballard to take the next step in his development and become a more consistent weapon throughout his career, but that never came.
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“I think Jayden took a step this last week,” Ohio State coach Ryan Day said immediately after the spring game in April. “We’ve been challenging him. There’s been a couple of plays — one in particular. He needed to make some plays to say, ‘OK, I’m here and you can count on me.’ There was a really contested play in the red zone that he made, he made a big play on a post out here the other day.
“You’re starting to see him make those plays.”
But those plays never came. Now Ballard is leaving the program after four seasons, and he’ll have one year left to make an impact elsewhere.
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