No. 1 Ohio State will be without starting defensive backs Denzel Burke and Lathan Ransom for Saturday's game at Rutgers, while starting wide receiver Emeka Egbuka is set to return to the field.
Burke, the team's top cornerback, will miss his second game in three weeks. He left an Oct. 14 game against Purdue in the third quarter, sat the following week against Penn State and then returned Oct. 28 at Wisconsin and recorded one tackle. Ransom left the field in the fourth quarter against Wisconsin with a noncontact injury and was carted to the locker room.