Ohio State national champion Jack Sawyer leaning on faith as he gears up for NFL: 'Keep trusting His plan'

For Ohio State Buckeyes standout linebacker Jack Sawyer, the past 48 hours person been rather a "whirlwind" if you inquire him. 

On Monday night, helium helped the Buckeyes headdress a resilient College Football Playoff tally with a nationalist title triumph implicit Notre Dame. And you tin expect what happened erstwhile the squad returned to Columbus, Ohio. 

"It’s been a batch of fun," Sawyer told Fox News Digital earlier his celebratory "shift" astatine Raising Cane’s successful Columbus alongside his prima backmost teammate Will Howard. "Obviously, it’s been a whirlwind aft the crippled erstwhile we archetypal got backmost to Columbus. Now, it’s possibly adjacent much of a whirlwind, but we’ve had a batch of amusive with it and truthful blessed we were capable to get the occupation done for Coach Day and the metropolis of Columbus."

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Will Howard and Jack Sawyer instrumentality representation with Ohio State fans extracurricular Raising Cane's successful Columbus, Ohio.  (Raising Cane's)

Sawyer pulled up to Raising Cane’s aboriginal Wednesday greeting with "already 100 radical outside," each of whom were waiting to praise the 2 Buckeyes for their contributions to a title season. 

But portion the Buckeyes’ celebrations continue, the extremity of the play means some Sawyer and Howard are acceptable to go NFL Draft prospects, arsenic they purpose for their modulation to pro football. 

Sawyer’s draught banal skyrocketed arsenic helium had a tremendous CFP run, including the strip-sack, scoop-and-score against his erstwhile Ohio State roommate, Texas backmost Quinn Ewers, to seal the Buckeyes’ triumph successful the Cotton Bowl to cement a spot successful the nationalist rubric game. 

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While his centrifugal connected the field, and enactment ethic disconnected it, are qualities that teams volition beryllium looking astatine during the scouting process, Sawyer knows that his religion volition proceed to play a ample relation successful what happens next. 

"It’s everything to us," Sawyer said astir his faith, bringing Howard into the fold arsenic well. "It’s a fig successful our lives erstwhile you enactment God archetypal similar that and genuinely question to turn with him and travel his plan. He’s going to unfastened truthful galore doors for you that you would ne'er deliberation you could execute otherwise. 

"For maine and Will, and truly everyone connected the team, our faith’s been the biggest happening keeping america up and keeping america moving guardant aft a mates pugnacious losses successful the season."

One of those losses was a monolithic upset by the Michigan Wolverines, the Buckeyes’ bitter rival whom Sawyer people refers to arsenic the "Team Up North," connected Nov. 30. It was a nonaccomplishment successful Columbus that led to a brawl connected the tract betwixt the 2 teams, wherever Sawyer was seen ripping a Michigan emblem distant from midfield aft the Wolverines wanted to observe their triumph adjacent more. 

At the time, it was a catastrophe for caput manager Ryan Day and the Buckeyes. They weren’t capable to get a changeable astatine the Big Ten title, and galore questioned if they had what it took to marque that CFP run. 

Jack Sawyer poses with shot astatine Columbus Raising Cane's.  (Raising Cane's)

But Ohio State showed what resiliency looks similar successful the look of adversity, particularly with a load of naysayers believing the Buckeyes erstwhile again wouldn’t beryllium capable to instrumentality their talented squad to the rubric game. 

"We knew we had to get to enactment and hole the things we needed to hole and onslaught it arsenic hard arsenic we could," helium said. "That’s precisely what we did. No 1 saw the enactment we were putting successful down the scenes."

For Sawyer personally, helium went into his adjacent crippled aft losing to Michigan and racked up 1.5 sacks with 2 passes defended and 5 full tackles successful the rout against Tennessee successful the archetypal circular of the CFP. Then, helium had 2 sacks and 3 passes defended successful the Rose Bowl against Oregon, followed by his 83-yard instrumentality for a touchdown against the Longhorns.

"I deliberation it’s conscionable taught maine a batch astir life," Sawyer said of this rubric run. "It’s taught maine astir however everything is not ever going to spell your way, but if you support trusting successful God and combat and support getting up each time swinging, yet you’re going to travel retired the different end. 

"I deliberation that is thing I’m going to instrumentality with maine to the adjacent level, and it’s thing I anticipation teams spot successful me. No substance what, I’m going to springiness it my all, support warring and proceed to turn each day."

Again, this is clip for solemnisation aft a long, hard play for Sawyer, his teammates and his coaches. But the NFL Scouting Combine is close astir the corner, and beauteous soon, Sawyer volition apt beryllium proceeding his sanction called successful April erstwhile the NFL Draft kicks off.

Ohio State Buckeyes antiaircraft extremity Jack Sawyer (33) celebrates aft defeating the Notre Dame Fighting Irish successful the CFP National Championship assemblage shot crippled astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

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Whichever squad writes his sanction connected their card, helium knows he’ll beryllium giving his each to marque an interaction similar helium has successful Columbus. But helium won’t accent immoderate measurement moving forward, arsenic his religion volition stay a changeless arsenic helium looks up to his adjacent large beingness moment. 

"Anything’s imaginable with God, and I’m going to support trusting his plan," Sawyer concluded. "Like I said, helium blessed america acold much than we could ever convey him capable for."

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