Former Buckeyes defensive tackle Taron Vincent signs deal with Los Angeles Rams

COLUMBUS — All 32 NFL teams passed on former Ohio State defensive tackle Taron Vincent during the draft last month.

The Los Angeles Rams picked him up as an undrafted free agent. Vincent has done enough already to prove he’s worth being signed. Vincent, in fact, signed with the Rams as an undrafted rookie free agent on Monday, according to ESPN NFL expert Adam Schefter.

Vincent did his best work on the Buckeyes defensive line in each of the last two seasons, totaling 48 total tackles, six tackles for loss and two .5 sacks in his final two years. He also had a fumble recovery last year for Ohio State.

He credits his production to finally, after years of bad injury luck, getting over various issues he suffered throughout his career.

“I’d say so,” Vincent said prior to the Buckeyes loss in the Peach Bowl. “I felt confident in my ability, I felt confident in the scheme when coach Knowles came in. And then just feeling healthy. I had no excuses not to produce.”

Vincent did produce, especially in the back half of his senior year. The former five-star recruit looked like on beginning in early November, when he had five total tackles against Northwestern. He followed it up with four tackles against Indiana. In his final appearance for the Buckeyes, Vincent had .5 sacks in the College Football Playoff semifinal loss to Georgia.

How did he do it?

“Just staying gap sound, staying in my gap, doing my responsibility, holding my gap, not getting pushed out of my gap, penetrating, causing penetration the whole game,” Vincent said. “Just trying to cause havoc in the backfield pretty much. Eating up double teams, freeing up the linebackers to make the plays.”

Now he can showcase that in the NFL. It doesn’t matter that he went undrafted.

Taron Vincent is signing with the Los Angeles Rams to begin his journey from undrafted to NFL playmaker.