Tommy Eichenberg has hardly come off the field while Steele Chambers and Cody Simon split reps in a three-man LB rotation that's yielded stellar results at the start of the season.
By this time last year, seven linebackers had already played meaningful snaps for Ohio State.
“It's great. Tommy is tough, focused, driven, has the respect of the defense and continues to improve,” Knowles said Tuesday. “... I think that Steele is athletic. Cody has a good physical presence and experience and Cody has a very stable mindset that I think the rest of the team picks up on. He can handle calls, checks, and just he brings that presence to the defense. So I like the fact that he's in that mix and we got three guys, really, who can play right there.
“ solid. You can tell he's playing fast, productive,” Day said Tuesday. “He and Steele both last week I thought were very productive, and they're running the defense at a pretty high level right now. So that's good. Again, only two games in the system, so long way to go again. But I think that they're seeing it through the eyes of Jim which is important.”
“We just feel more free, being able to just kind of play ball now. So it's really nice. … Coach Knowles has all these combinations where both of us come, Tommy comes, I come. You rarely know what's happening,” Chambers said Saturday. “So I think he just set it up really nicely on that one play. … It's fun because the offense just doesn't know what's happening sometimes. I mean, just keeps them on their toes and never know who exactly is coming and stuff like that.
“Cody was hurt, right? So didn't get much of a chance to evaluate him. But you could tell by his presence in the meeting room and the respect the other players had,” Knowles said. “I had hoped that he would be able to show during fall camp to to be a guy who was going to merit a lot of playing time. And he did. He's really stepped up.
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