COLUMBUS, Ohio – Much has been made in sports about a younger player 'waiting' for his turn but there has been no waiting for Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins as he spent the first two years of his Ohio State career behind J.T. Barrett.

Waiting would imply sitting back and allowing time to pass. There has been no wait with Haskins as he spent his time working on getting better and making it impossible for the coaching staff to tap either the recently departed Joe Burrow or Tate Martell ahead of him.

Even once Burrow announced his transfer to LSU and it appeared that Haskins would get the job, the Ohio State RS-Sophomore quarterback continued to work, and his coaches noticed the efforts that were being put in.

It is one thing to go out with the wide receivers and have them run routes while throwing to them, but there is so much more to being a collegiate quarterback at the highest level and Ryan Day has seen all of that out of his quarterback as he highlighted two areas of growth, one mental and one physical.

"One is in the classroom understanding the offense and football and really going to work, so much that goes into being a quarterback, route structures and protections and run game and taking command of the offense," Day said on the Big Ten teleconference on Tuesday. "That is really taken off in the last year."