Former Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields will return to Columbus this weekend to serve as the celebrity guest picker for ESPN’s “College Gameday” when the show airs live from Ohio State for the Buckeyes’ noon game against Indiana on Saturday.
Fields is able to join the “Gameday” desk — which this year consists of host Rece Davis, longtime analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard as well as former Alabama head coach Nick Saban and ESPN personality Pat McAfee — because his current team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, were in Ohio on Thursday to play the Cleveland Browns, and do not have a game this weekend.
Fields, who is the current backup quarterback to Russell Wilson in Pittsburgh after starting for the franchise for the first six games this season, returns to Ohio State nearly four years after last taking his snap with the Scarlet and Gray. He played two seasons with the Buckeyes from 2019-20, winning Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year each year while combining for 6,340 total yards (5,373 passing, 867 rushing) and 78 touchdowns.
Ohio State went 20-2 with Fields under center, winning the Big Ten and making the College Football Playoff in each of those seasons and advancing all the way to the CFP national championship game against Saban’s Alabama in 2020.
Fields is now the second former OSU quarterback in as many years to serve as guest picker for “College Gameday,” joining his former teammate and current Houston Texans starter C.J. Stroud, who was on hand when the show broadcast inside Ohio Stadium before the Buckeyes’ 20-12 win over Penn State last October.
