The Ohio State football program will honor the late Dwayne Haskins during the spring game on Saturday, according to Buckeyes coach Ryan Day.
Dwayne Haskins, who was fatally struck by a vehicle in Florida on last Saturday morning, will be remembered by Ohio State fans for more than a decade to come. He was 24 years old.
Haskins’ connection to Ohio State began at an early age. Visiting the university when he was 11 years old, Haskins toured the football facilities while wearing a jersey with his name and No. 7 on the back.
A video of the visit survives today, with Haskins telling his father that he would attend Ohio State and play quarterback there some day.
He then went on to become the starting quarterback for Ohio State University, succeeding J.T. Barrett and reaching new heights for the Buckeyes.
As a sophomore in 2018, Haskins broke single-season passing records for Ohio State and the Big Ten Conference by completing 70 percent of his passes for 4,831 yards and a 50-8 touchdown-to-interception ratio.
Haskins capped his Ohio State career by passing for 499 yards and five touchdowns in the Big Ten Championship Game, then threw for three more touchdowns and 251 yards in the Rose Bowl, his final game as a Buckeye.
The Quarter-back performances made him a top Heisman Trophy contender and the winner of the Maxwell Award.
Dwayne Haskins declared for the 2019 NFL Draft, where he was selected in the first round by Washington and He spent the 2021 season with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Stroud will be expected to build upon Haskins’s legacy as coach of a program that made great strides toward national recognition at the end of Haskins’s tenure.
“Just the way that he was 11 years old walking through this facility and said, ‘This is what I’m going to do.’ And then he did it,” Day said of Haskins on Monday, via ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg. “That’s the legacy he’s gonna leave behind.”