Caden Curry felt like he lost a step after gaining 15 pounds as a freshman, so getting his speed back has been a big point of emphasis entering his sophomore season.
Throughout his first year at Ohio State, Caden Curry bulked up from 245 pounds to 260 pounds. Learning to play with those extra 15 pounds was an adjustment for the 6-foot-3 Buckeye defensive end.
As is often the case for Ohio State defensive ends coming out of high school, Curry was instructed to get bigger upon starting his career with the Buckeyes to better equip him to hold up physically against the 300-plus-pound offensive tackles he will routinely face in the Big Ten. Despite feeling like he wasn’t playing as fast as he should be, Curry was impressive in limited playing time as a freshman. In just 78 total snaps as a third-string defensive end, Curry flashed the ability to be a disruptive playmaker off the edge, recording 14 tackles with 1.5 tackles for loss and a half-sack.
“Just getting to the ball, getting off blocks, keeping people away from the ball, that kind of all just pitches in a little bit here and there and you kind of just feed off of every little thing and it kind of just makes you better as a player,” Curry said of how his special teams experience will help him. “Just seeing how everything moves so fast and just kind of reading it all at once makes you a better player all around.
“I thought he came in last preseason and the first quarter of the season and really made plays. Just a tremendous football player. But quite honestly, kind of leveled off a little bit as the season went on,” Day said on the first day of spring practice. “We talked about that. Coach J talked to him about that. And then he's really picked it up this offseason.
“We were in the situation that we were probably playing the older guys a little bit more. Wanted to keep those guys on the field, so he wasn't a factor for us going down the stretch,” Johnson said of Curry’s limited playing time in 2022. “But he played a lot of special teams, and that was his gig. Now it's time to play football. And I think he's ready to do that.”
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