If Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller intends to play mostly wide receiver this season, Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer and Miller’s father don’t want the public to know it yet.
Earlier this week, Miller told Sports Illustrated’s Pete Thamel that he plans to start the season at H-back — a hybrid receiver position — in 2015.
“For the most part, it’s going to be H-Back and punt return,” Miller said. “It’s a long process to get back totally to throwing and throwing every day. This is the smarter thing for right now, God blessed me with a lot of talent and different opportunities. I’m going to have fun with that and still score a lot of touchdowns and help the team out and be dominant at that.”
Those words came straight from the horse’s mouth, but Meyer said Miller is “jumping the gun.”
“I haven’t made those decisions yet,” he told The Columbus Dispatch. “It seems like it’s a little bit jumping the gun. Braxton came to see me. … He’s been talking to me about it. We’ve been working at it. But I’m not ready to say exactly how we’re going to use him yet.”
Miller’s father, Kevin, said that Braxton’s primary plan is not to play receiver.
“That’s not his plan, but if it comes down to that, he’s already been putting in work,” Kevin explained. “You don’t want to wait until the last minute.”
Either Miller and his coach are on completely different wavelengths, or Meyer doesn’t want other teams knowing that he plans to use Miller in a hybrid role. The latter seems like the more likely scenario.
