Ohio State football loses another assistant coach to an SEC school

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The Ohio State football program is losing another assistant coach at a very inopportune time. The program is already trying to juggle the departure of Brian Hartline to USF, and now it’ll have to figure out how to handle some of the coaching duties of the offensive line with the news that assistant coach of the offensive line, Marcus Johnson, is leaving to join Arkansas. CBS Sports was the first to report the story.

Johnson joined the OSU staff under offensive line coach Tyler Bown this season after spending two years as the offensive line coach at Purdue. Before that, Johnson had coaching stops with Missouri (2020-23), Duke (2016-17), and Mississippi State (2018-19).

Heading back to the SEC should feel like home for Johnson. He was an offensive lineman for Ole Miss from 2001 to 2004 before being drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the 2005 NFL draft, where he spent four seasons before playing his last season in the NFL for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2009.

We’ll see what Ryan Day says about Johnson and whether or not he’ll finish out the season, and how he decides to address the opening on the staff moving forward.

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This article originally appeared on Buckeyes Wire: Ohio State football loses another assistant coach ahead of CFP run

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