COLUMBUS — First-year Buckeye coach Ryan Day is refusing to name a starter at quarterback as spring practice wrapped up Saturday’s annual intra-squad scrimmage before a little more than 61,000 fans at Ohio Stadium.
The competition to replace the record-breaking Heisman finalist Dwayne Haskins Jr. will continue to fall camp, but there’s no question that Georgia transfer Justin Fields comes in as the most ballyhooed.
Fields is competing with redshirt freshman Matthew Baldwin, who spent most of last season rehabbing from a knee injury suffered in his last high school game in 2017.
Baldwin, who took snaps with the Gray squad, which won the game 35-17, and threw three times as much as Fields, completing 20 passes for 246 yards and two touchdowns but also throwing two interceptions.
Fields finished with 119 yards, most of it on a 98-yard scoring strike to Binjimen Victor. Fields also rushed for 38 yards and a touchdwn.
Master Teague rushed for 75 yards and two touchdowns for the Gray squad.