Third-year center Zed Key has dealt with a shoulder injury for weeks that will now keep him from action for the remainder of the season.
Ohio State center and team captain Zed Key's full press conference from Feb. 14, 2023.The third-year center and Ohio State captain will not return to game action
Key had battled the injury during the opening weeks of the season but, after taking a hard shot to the shoulder in the opening minutes of the Purdue game, had to leave and was physically unable to return. He missed the team’s next game, a loss at Maryland, and returned as a reserve in a Jan. 12 home loss to Minnesota while wearing a restrictive, heavy black brace on the shoulder.
"The biggest thing they were testing was the strength, the overall strength and as that continued to weaken and not get better they felt like he was just going to be more susceptible to further injury and didn’t feel comfortable clearing him," Holtmann said."I know Zed and his family felt some relief in the sense that they can move forward and get the surgery done a little earlier and hopefully have a little bit of a longer offseason.
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