{"id":218919,"date":"2021-04-04T21:29:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T18:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/gonzagas-jalen-suggs-was-a-qb-with-an-ohio-state-offer\/"},"modified":"2021-04-04T21:29:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T18:29:19","slug":"gonzagas-jalen-suggs-was-a-qb-with-an-ohio-state-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gonzagas-jalen-suggs-was-a-qb-with-an-ohio-state-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"#Gonzaga’s Jalen Suggs was a QB with an Ohio State offer"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Gonzaga’s Jalen Suggs was a QB with an Ohio State offer<\/strong>”
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Jalen Suggs\u2019 overtime heroics in Gonzaga\u2019s 93-90 win over UCLA on Saturday could have been a work of fiction had the 6-foot-4 freshman taken a different athletic path.<\/p>\n

Suggs, a 19-year-old Minnesota native, played quarterback and high school and even scored a scholarship to Ohio State University.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlessed beyond measures to receive a scholarship from THE Ohio State,\u201d Suggs tweeted<\/a> in May 2018.<\/p>\n

The nearly three-year-old message has since gone viral following Suggs\u2019 3-point buzzer-beater on Saturday, sending Gonzaga to Monday\u2019s national title game<\/a> against Baylor.<\/p>\n

\u201cCould\u2019ve been an OSU legend,\u201d one fan tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat could\u2019ve been! (I think he made the right choice going with basketball),\u201d another posted.<\/a><\/p>\n

If Suggs had gone to Ohio State, he likely would have been behind quarterback Justin Fields on the depth chart before Fields declared for the 2021 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

In a previous interview with The Post, Suggs spoke about his college plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowing that Gonzaga was my main school basketball-wise I wanted to go to and didn\u2019t have a football team, it wouldn\u2019t be like Florida or Florida State, Minnesota, Iowa State, where I could go over to the football complex, try it out, see if it could work,\u201d Suggs said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s part of the reason why I did it, so I can focus on what I needed to do. But it was really hard to actually come to the realization that I wouldn\u2019t be playing it anymore. There were definitely times [this fall] where I thought, \u2018What if I went and played, if I were out there running around?\u2019\u201d he continued.\n <\/p><\/div>\n