Addressing a wide receiver room with four future NFL draft picks and three eventual all-time Ohio State record-holders, Brian Hartline opted to highlight the performance of a first-year walk-on during a preseason meeting in 2018.
Brecksville, Ohio, native Sam Wiglusz wasn’t far removed from pondering whether or not he would play college football at all, let alone at Ohio State. A disappointing high school recruitment left Wiglusz with only some partial scholarship offers at FCS schools, and admittedly, his own expectations for what he might achieve as a preferred walk-on for the Buckeyes weren’t all that high.
But Wigulsz found his footing faster than he might have anticipated amid his first fall camp, and in front of a star-studded cast of playmakers, the interim wide receivers coach confirmed as much with a message that’s stuck with Wiglusz ever since.