Not too long ago, it wasn't a foregone conclusion senior defensive tackle Haskell Garrett would ever play football again.
He was injured when shot in the face a half-mile away from Ohio State's campus early on Aug. 30. Garrett told Columbus Police officers that he saw a man and a woman arguing, he told the man to stop then got shot. First responders took him to the hospital, which released him a day later.
At the time, defensive coordinator Kerry Coombs had the same idea as most people: "I would have thought season over, career over."
Instead, Garrett didn't miss a single game. He came off the bench as a rotational defensive tackle early in Saturday's season opener against Nebraska and, incredibly, recorded the first sack of his team's season late in the second quarter.
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The sack of quarterback Adrian Martinez on 2nd-and-15 put the Cornhuskers into 3rd-and-long territory with less than three minutes remaining in the first half.
Garrett also secured a tackle on a three-yard rush early in the second quarter. He entered halftime tied for fourth on the team with a pair of tackles.
A month and a half ago, many wondered whether Garrett would even play football again. But on Saturday, he became the first Buckeye this season with a sack.
