Braxton Miller could be a valuable piece to another Ohio State title run. (Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports)
Braxton Miller is nearly full strength and ready to compete for the starting quarterback job he held at the beginning of Ohio State’s 2014 national championship season.
Miller, the 2013 Big Ten Player of the Year, was a Heisman Trophy candidate last season but was slow to recover from shoulder surgery and missed the entire 2014 season.
J.T. Barrett, who took over the No. 1 job for the Buckeyes, is “95 percent” with one month to go before the start of fall camp, according to coach Urban Meyer.
Meyer said Miller is healthy and prepared to compete for the right to start for the defending champions.
“Braxton is pretty close to full speed,” Meyer said Wednesday at a football camp in Northeast Ohio.
Cardale Jones, who won the Big Ten championship game, beat Alabama in the national semifinals and Oregon in the title game, is also back and in the thick of the Ohio State QB quandary.
