Scarlet Sunrise: Buckeyes add former NFL linebacker as quality control coach

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Buckeyes add former NFL linebacker as quality control coach

Ohio State has added a behind-the-scenes member to its already loaded coaching staff.

The Buckeyes are adding former NFL linebacker Ricky Brown as a quality control coach. Brown will work with the Buckeyes special teams.

Brown, a Cincinnati native who played at Boston College before playing six NFL seasons, was the linebackers coach at Lafayette this past season. He had previously been a quality control coach at USC, the director of football initiatives at Boston College and then the special teams coordinator at Boston College.

He has been coaching or on a staff since 2014, and now, he’s the newest member of a deep roster of Ohio State behind-the-scenes coaches.

Lettermen Live hosted by Roosters

NFL draft week is finally here, and there is plenty of Ohio State intrigue. Lettermen Live is back at Roosters for a full breakdown of every Buckeyes draft angle.

Lettermen Row senior writer Austin Ward is joined by Nicole Cox from Roosters, former Buckeyes quarterback Justin Zwick and former Ohio State linebacker Bobby Carpenter for an in-depth look at the NFL draft. The crew breaks down where Buckeyes will land in the draft, the scrutiny surrounding Justin Fields and much more. They also talk about which Buckeyes could be steals in the draft.

Jeremy Birmingham also drops by to update the Buckeyes recruiting scene, including the loss of a linebacker pledge and the potential inside the transfer portal.

As always, Lettermen Live is hosted by Roosters on Olentangy River Road in Columbus.

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Who will Buckeyes recruit at linebacker in 2022 class?

Ohio State lost a commitment over the weekend when four-star linebacker Dasan McCullough flipped to Indiana. So now the Buckeyes are looking for another linebacker to complement C.J. Hicks and Gabe Powers in the 2022 class.

Who could they go after to replace McCullough at outside linebacker? Lettermen Row’s Jeremy Birmingham, the ace recruiting expert, has more:

The names Shawn Murphy and Justin Medlock should be familiar. Murphy has Ohio ties and has remained very close to Hicks, plus Al Washington has remained in conversation with him. Both Murphy and Medlock project as inside linebackers in the future, so it’s worth wondering if that hurts them with Ohio State. Clearly the goal has been to find longer, rangier types like Mitchell Melton or Craig Young — kids who can run, cover and serve as rushing-game nullifiers.

Those are the relatively established names, because they’re the guys who were recruited before Hicks, Powers and McCullough committed. The biggest challenge for Ohio State now is that every other linebacker prospect had all but written them off because of what appeared to be three solid commitments that seemed in no danger of any kind. That puts the Buckeyes in a bit of catch-up mode in the relationship side of things with anyone they get to know now.

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