\n Ohio State will be without both of its returning starters at offensive tackles for the rest of the spring due to injury. <\/p>\n
\n\tAustin Siereveld and Phillip Daniels will both miss the rest of the spring after undergoing \u201cminor procedures\u201d for injuries, Ryan Day confirmed Monday. Day said Siereveld and Daniels are both expected to be back in time for summer workouts.\n<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThose guys had a small procedure, but they’ll be out for the rest of spring and will be back for a full summer,\u201d Day said.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tWith Siereveld and Daniels out for Saturday\u2019s Student Appreciation Day, Ian Moore practiced as Ohio State\u2019s first-team left tackle while Carter Lowe was the Buckeyes\u2019 first-team right tackle. Day indicated that Moore and Lowe will continue to rep with the starters for the rest of spring.\n<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIt was good to see those guys get some reps and kind of get forced into it. They’ll be like that for the rest of spring,\u201d Day said of Moore and Lowe.\u00a0\u201cIt’s great to see both Ian and Carter have to step up in a big way.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThe absence of Daniels and Siereveld for the final two weeks of spring opens the door for both of them, particularly Moore, to make their case that they belong on the starting offensive line this season. Moore was already viewed as a candidate to be one of Ohio State\u2019s top five offensive linemen this season. If\u00a0he finishes the spring strong, he could potentially supplant Daniels as Ohio State\u2019s starting right tackle, or the Buckeyes could move Siereveld back to guard \u2013 the position he started his Ohio State career\u00a0playing \u2013 to fill their vacancy at right guard, where Gabe VanSickle is currently running with the starters alongside Luke Montgomery and Carson Hinzman.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tSiereveld started all 14 of Ohio State\u2019s games last season at left tackle while Daniels started 13 of 14 games at right tackle, with Moore starting in his place for one game when Daniels missed the Purdue game due to injury.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Buckeyes are exploring changes along the offensive line this spring after the line struggled in Ohio State\u2019s final two games of last season, giving up five sacks in each of the Buckeyes\u2019 losses to Indiana and Miami. That said, Siereveld, Montgomery and Hinzman are all viewed as locks to start somewhere along the line. Daniels\u2019 starting job may be less secure after he struggled in pass protection down the stretch of last season, though he\u2019ll have the chance to continue competing to keep his job in preseason camp.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tDay said Monday that there is \u201cabsolutely\u201d a possibility that Siereveld, Daniels and Moore could all be starters on Ohio State\u2019s offensive line, noting that Siereveld has the flexibility to play both tackle and guard. He also identified Joshua Padilla, who is also out this spring due to injury, as another player with \u201cflexibility\u201d who\u2019s a potential candidate to start at guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ohio State will be without both of its returning starters at offensive tackles for the rest of the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":709048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-709047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116358663157406831","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}