At the NFL combine, Kyle McCord checks his time in the state of Ohio: “I didn't play my best football.”

Syracuse, ny. -The state of Ohio went with a New Year in three consecutive seasons with a New Year's Bowl appearance between the loss of the 2020 national championship against Alabama and the defeat of Notre Dame for the title 2024.

The quarterback for the last 11: 2 season was Kyle McCord, which was announced that his starting place was not guaranteed the following season. It led to his transfer to Syracus, which in turn brought him to the 2025 NFL scouting combine.

McCord once again answered questions about his Buckeyes office under the largest microscope of his career to date in front of the media, trainers and front workers of all 32 NFL teams.

“I was very critical when I watched the state of Ohio and attacked the areas that I have to improve,” McCord told reporters in Indianapolis on Friday. “I will be the first person to admit that I didn't play my best football in Ohio State.”

McCord said many of his mistakes were growing pain to be a starter in the first year and recognize that many of them were corrected.

All of this follows a public separation between him and the head coach of Buckeyes, Ryan Day, who was under fire for a third defeat against Michigan from the believers of the state of Ohio. While the Wolverines won the big ten on the way to winning the national championship, Day planned the future of his squad.

It led to McCord moving to Syracus and the leading passer -by became the nation, while the state of Ohio, the national championship with Kansa's State Transfer Will Wants Wants, a Downingtown, a Guy McCord, the Pennsylvania -Guy McCord, knows of her days at the Manning Passion Academy.

Nevertheless, McCord said to play in the state of Ohio and everything that came into the big ten with the game for a constant national championship candidate, prepared him for his breakout campaign and his breakout campaign and was in the radars of the NFL teams.

“I know that people try to make it look like we hate each other, but that's not the case,” said McCord about Day. “I was over him all season and I know that he rooted in me.”

McCord and Syracuse trainer Fran Brown said that McCord's ability to look in the mirror and make changes proved to be the ultimate payment.

However, Brown thought that there was a different layer that became a central practice point.

“I think it was a mix that came from the kyle and was able to drop the shield and no longer think that there is a certain way how a quarterback has to act and play football,” Brown told Syracuse.com.

McCord and Syracus seemed perfect to fit. Brown is a colleague born from New Jersey who was looking for the Philadelphia area in Temple and Rutgers for nine years and was an initial head coach who needed an established quarterback.

He was on McCord's couch the day after McCord hit the portal.

Under Brown, the offensive coordinator Jeff Nixon and the former coach for Wide Recevers Coach/Passing Games, Ross Douglas, McCord led the nation in Passing Yards when the orange ended a 10-3 season with a 1,000 yard receiver, two 900 yard passports and two 500 yarders.

“Kyle was always on the point,” said Brown. “He was always one step ahead as if we had an additional coach in the field with him.”

Now McCord is preparing to train on Saturday in front of all 32 teams in the combine harvester. He led to talks with the Cleveland Browns and the New York Jets – the team he grew up – formerly in Indianapolis and is expected to be drafted in front of Howard.

McCord showed an understanding of the number of eyes that went with the state of Ohio's quarterback during his media meeting, which could prove to be useful experience.

Seldom makes a Monday fun during the NFL season without the quarterback being placed in the broadcasting company according to the board game, and have selected and disassembled their games.

“I think the most difficult part of being a starter in the first year is that you learn through experiments and errors,” said McCord. “It is one thing to do it in practice, but it is another thing to do it in front of 100,000 people in a top 10 matchup. … and then go to the second year that mistakes have to happen, and it's just about how to react. ”

After McCord has overcome this hump over this hump and vocalized his well-documented past in front of the owners of his NFL fate, he can concentrate on football again and enjoy the dream while preparing for the drills on the field on Saturday.

“When I grew up, you watch things like the NFL combinat and the professional days and you are: 'Man, I can't wait to be in this position.' And now it's definitely surreal. “