How Did 3rd Year Buckeyes Do In the NFL This Year?

Dwayne

This is the sequel to last year’s post about 2nd year Buckeyes. We’ve all taken another trip around the sun, so I can just basically re-publish the same post, adding a little here and there. A few things have happened though. Namely, the death of Dwayne Haskins. So, we’ll talk a bit about his incandescent greatness in his one season as a Buckeye starting QB, and why he maybe should have won the Heisman. And maybe a bit about his NFL career.

Round	Pick	Player	Position	NFL Club
1	2	Nick Bosa	DE	San Francisco 49ers
1	15	Dwayne Haskins	QB	Washington Redskins
2	59	Parris Campbell	WR	Indianapolis Colts
3	71	Dre’Mont Jones	DT	Denver Broncos
3	76	Terry McLaurin	WR	Washington Commanders
4	111	Kendall Sheffield	CB	Atlanta Falcons
4	136	Michael Jordan	C	Cincinnati Bengals
6	202	Isaiah Prince	OT	Miami Dolphins
7	218	Mike Weber	RB	Dallas Cowboys

Draftees from the 2018 Buckeye Team

Dwayne Haskins

Let’s flip Nick and Dwayne. I don’t think Nick will mind if we start off with the late QB.

First, we need to talk about Dwayne’s untimely death. He was crossing a road at night and got hit by a dump truck. And thrown into the path of another car, which also hit him. It doesn’t really get much worse than that. That really sucks. He leaves behind a wife and a baby.

Much of the Twitter commentary and sports radio commentary around his death centered on the manner of his death and the way the national media handled reporting on it. Adam Schefter, famously at this point, chose to include how Dwayne‘s NFL career hadn’t gone so well up to his death. While more or less factual, you’re not supposed to do that kind of thing. “Shitty football player dies,” basically. And also, he was a couple years into a football career… Not many people are awesome in the NFL. Most players are just trying to get a contract and put some food on the table. Only a couple are getting giant contracts and shoe deals. Adam Shefter, of all people, knows this. First round QB’s, especially those not in the top couple of picks, are hit or miss. Dwayne had 1 great year in college and went pro. Of course he did! He was guaranteed 15 million dollars. Sure he could have stayed in school, but that would have been a terrible idea. In 2016 a guy named Paxton Lynch was taken in the first round. The point is, shit happens. Sorry for bringing you into this, Paxton.

Let’s discuss the 2018 Heisman a minute. Haskins got 3rd in the voting as a sophomore, behind Kyler Murray and Tua Tagovailoa. Check out their stats below.

Kyler – 260 of 377, 4361 yds, 42 TD’s, 7 INT’s.

Tua – 245 of 355, 3966 yds, 43 TD’s, 6 INT’s.

Dwayne – 373 of 533, 4831 yards, 50 TD’s, 8 INT’s.

It was a pretty close vote between 1 and 2, although Kyler was pretty far ahead in 1st place votes. Not a lot of love for my guy Dwayne though. 533 pass attempts! What is this Texas Tech!? Over 100 more completions than the other 2 guys! 50 TD’s ties him for ~~5th~~ 6th all time in a season (apparently some guy named Bailey Zappe broke Joe Burrow’s 60-TD record last year, throwing 62 TD’s for Western Kentucky: 14 games, 475 completions on 686 attempts in 2021). Dwayne’s historic season should have gotten more love, dammit. We were 13-1 and finished 3rd in the final AP Poll. I guess our one blowout loss to Purdue made sure that didn’t happen. That year Tua lost to Clemson in the championship game. Kyler lost to Tua in the semifinal.

(Also, it remains fantastic that Dwayne and Joe Burrow were JT Barrett’s backup QB’s in 2017).

At this point, I usually like to talk about how much money our beloved buckeyes have made and what their contracts are looking like. For Dwayne – I hope there’s a good chunk of the original 15M contract left for his family.

Nick Bosa

The younger Bosa Bro had a great rookie year and then missed most of year 2 with an injury. This past season, year 3, he played in 17 games, made the pro bowl and was named All-Pro 1st Team. He led the NFL in tackles for loss, with 21.

Including his guaranteed money for the next couple years, Nick will have total career earnings of $51,515,248. And I assume he’ll get a monster 2nd contract here at some point. So… Nick’s doing well for himself and I hope he gets 200 million more dollars.

Parris Campbell

Parris has played in 15 games in his 3 years in the NFL. 34 catches, 360 yards, 2 TD’s. He’s had a broken foot, a broken hand, a sports hernia, and, most recently, PCL and MCL injuries to his left knee. Lots of bad injury luck for a super fast guy. Hopefully he can get on the field in the fall of 2022. New Colts QB Matt Ryan might even be able to get him the ball!

According to Spotrac, Parris’ total earnings including 2022 are $4,804,094. Hopefully he can stay on the field this upcoming season and get a second contract!

Dre’Mont Jones

43 games, 16 as a starter in 3 years. 86 tackles, 19 tackles-for-loss. 15.5 sacks.

Total career earnings, according to Spotrac, are $5,922,240, including 2022. And if he has a good year, he might end up with some real money next year.

Terry McLaurin

In 3 seasons, Scary Terry has been the #1 WR option in all 46 games he’s played with the Washington Professional Football team, now The Commanders. I can’t decide if I think the name is fine or ridiculous. Like, you can’t have a team of all commanders, right? There can only be one. Anyway, Terry is good. 222 receptions, over 3000 yards, 16 TDs.

His QB’s in his 3 years have been:

2021: Taylor Heinicke, Garrett Gilbert, Kyle Allen, Ryan Fitzpatrick.

2020: Alex Smith, Dwayne Haskins, Allen, Heinicke, Logan Thomas, Isaiah Wright.

2019: Case Keenum, Haskins, Colt McCoy, Kelvin Harmon, Steven Sims, Will Arnold.

To repeat the joke for the millionth time… only one of those names is made up! Carson Wentz looks like he’ll be the guy this year – so hopefully he’ll go back to 3 or 4 years ago when he was good.

Wide receiver contracts have been going nuts in the NFL and Terry looks like he’ll be up for a pretty nice 2nd contract. As previously stated, NFL contracts make no sense, so I have no idea if they’ll try and get a deal done before the season or wait. Up to now Terry’s career earnings are $5,819,671.

Kendall Sheffield

Sheffield was recently released by the Falcons and is now a free agent. He played pretty consistently in his 1st and 2nd year, but had some injury issues last year. Looks like he made $3,364,006 in 3 years with the Falcons.

A couple weeks ago, the Houston Texans picked him up. Per Spotrac, he will make 2.5 million this year, although we don’t yet know if he will make the 53-man roster and actually see the money.

Michael Jordan

$3,081,375 career earnings. Has the same name as the most famous athlete of all time. So, that’s good. I’m not finding any solid contract info for him. There’s an italicized grayed out amount on Spotrac for almost 1M in 2022. But I think that’s the magical amount that disappears like Keyser Soze and may or may not be replaced by an actual contract amount.

Jordan has played in 38 games over 3 years. Which is really the only stat for offensive linemen unless you’re a big nerd.

Isaiah Prince

Isaiah was on the 2021 AFC champion Cincinnati Bengals! One of the main characteristics of the 2021 Bengals was that Joe Burrow (sorry, BUCKEYE GREAT Joe Burrow), got sacked a lot. Approximately 78 sacks per game. Which isn’t a great look for Mr Prince. But… who gives a shit – he plays in the NFL and had a shot at a super bowl last year. So it’s fine.

Here’s a screenshot of his earnings page on the Spotrac app. Is the $2M over the next 2 years real? Who can say????: