Ryan Day discusses health of Justin Fields heading into B1G Championship Game
Ohio State has received an injury scare with star quarterback Justin Fields in each of the past two games.
Against Penn State, Fields took one hard hit to his leg that appeared to tweak his knee. One week later, Fields was forced to leave the game against Michigan after aggravating that injury. Thankfully, he did return to the field against the Wolverines and threw a touchdown soon after.
Following the win over Michigan, Fields revealed that he had suffered a sprained MCL in his knee during the game against Penn State. He switched to a bigger brace against Michigan after reaggravating the injury.
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After the injury concerns from last week’s game, it cast a bit of a question mark on Fields’ status and overall health heading into the B1G Championship. Fortunately, head coach Ryan Day indicated that the status of Fields’ knee has been given a “100%” go from Ohio State’s training staff.
Lantern Sports shared Day’s update from Friday’s B1G Championship press conference:
"Everything we've heard back is that it's 100 percent go. If there was any question on that, we'd take precautions."
Ryan Day on Justin Fields' sprained MCL.
— Lantern Sports (@LanternSports) December 6, 2019
Day also indicated the situation with Fields is drastically different from the one Ohio State went through with J.T. Barrett in 2017. He also pointed out that the dings to Fields have come on passing plays, so the Buckeyes will not try to be overly cautious in their playcalling.
Dan Hope with 11 Warriors shared Day’s comments:
Ryan Day said Justin Fields' sprained MCL is a very different situation than when J.T. Barrett suffered a knee injury at Michigan and had to have a procedure done before the 2017 Big Ten Championship Game. Buckeyes feel great about how Fields is doing going into tomorrow's game.
— Dan Hope (@Dan_Hope) December 6, 2019
Ryan Day on Justin Fields: "His family's done a tremendous job of grounding him. He has a tremendous approach, and he's humble. But deep inside of him, there's a fire in there … he's very, very competitive."
— Dan Hope (@Dan_Hope) December 6, 2019
Hopefully, Fields stays in the game all 60 minutes and continues his excellent play.
