With the tragic suicide of Buckeyes Kosta Karageorge, one of his teammates will honor him tonight by wearing his number for the Big Ten Championship game. Karageorge was a walk-on senior defensive end who went missing for four days. He was found on Sunday with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Michael Bennett normally wears the #63 and was also one of the pallbearers at Karageorge’s funeral on Wednesday. He had this to say about his fallen teammate:
“We knew he had a lot of concussions. But you never knew he was depressed or anything like that,” Bennett said earlier this week. “I think he was one of the most positive out of everybody, which goes to show you can’t tell when something sneaks up. There’s no way to notice it.”
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— Ohio State Buckeyes (@OhioStAthletics) December 6, 2014
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[h/t Yahoo Sports]