Saturday’s spring practice for the Ohio State Buckeyes was fully open to students and media. Typically, media members cannot view an entire practice, but Saturday had more of a scrimmage feel to it and many were allowed to watch and record what they saw.

Among many storylines that surfaced from the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, the top one is the surge that Lincoln Kienholz has made in winning the quarterback job. The feeling to this point is that the quarterback job is Julian Sayin’s to lose, but the longest-tenured Buckeye in that room is making his presence known.

The last time that Buckeyes fans saw Kienholz was in a backup capacity at the Cotton Bowl two seasons ago against Missouri. In that game, then starter Devin Brown was injured on the first drive and the true freshman was thrust into action.

Kienholz looked like a true freshman playing for a team that had nothing to play for. He finished the day 6-for-17 for 86 yards and one lost fumble in the 14-3 loss to the Tigers.

That lone performance has stuck on the minds of many Buckeyes fans, but Kienholz brings so much more to the table.

In high school, he was a three-sport star from South Dakota. He was so good as a baseball player that he decided against enrolling at Ohio State early in the spring so that he could compete with his high school baseball team.

Not only was he a great player on the diamond, but he could also hold his own on the basketball court. He averaged nearly 20 points and seven rebounds per game in his junior season.