It was a mixed bag of Buckeye performances in NFL Divisional Playoff Weekend.
It was up and down for the Ohio State Buckeyes in the NFL this weekend during the Divisional Round of the Playoffs.
We previewed each of the games and where the Buckeyes would fall into them on the site on Saturday morning, but the real standouts came on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon.
In the first game of the weekend, there was very little production from the former Buckeyes. It was just two tackles by Joey Bosa and two tackles by Jonothan Cooper in what was likely the game of the weekend, especially with the controversy that it ended with.
Then, in the Saturday night cap, Jaxon Smith-Njigba took flight. JSN didn't put up the gaudy numbers that we are used to seeing, but he did get on the board with his first career Playoff Touchdown when quarterback Sam Darnold found him for a four-yard touchdown pass.
That game was never close. Literally. The Seahawks took the opening kickoff back for a touchdown and never looked back. They took it to the 49ers and beat them thoroughly, 41-6.
Then, Sunday came around, and out in Foxboro, Massachusetts, it was the Buckeyes Bowl. CJ Stroud, Cade Stover, and TreVeyon Henderson were all competing for the chance to go to the AFC Championship, and it couldn't have gone worse for Stroud.
He is the talk of the NFL after he put up one of the worst quarterbacking performances anyone will ever see on the biggest stage. He finished the day 20-47 for 212 yards, one touchdown, and four interceptions. Honestly, those stats are way better than how he played on Sunday.
He probably should have finished the game with six or seven interceptions, and had he even played marginally better, the Texans would have won the football game. Instead, they go packing and head to the offseason.
It didn't end there for Stroud. Early in the fourth quarter, Stroud aimed a short completion to Cade Stover, and his pass missed so badly that Stover had to contort his body in a way that ended up in a nasty knee injury.
The other side wasn't much better, as running back TreVeyon Henderson couldn't really get it going at all. The Houston defense had him bottled up, and he finished with just 25 yards on 12 carries and one catch for -2 yards.
The Buckeyes certainly did not shine in this one.
The final game of the weekend had just two Buckeyes in it, and Ty Hamilton registered a tackle. The game between Los Angeles and the Chicago Bears was amazing but didn't have any Buckeye action in it.