Buckeyes in the NFL, Week 17: Fourteen Make the Playoffs, Pryor Records First Catch as a Wideout

It's NFL playoff time again, which means one Ohio NFL fanbase has no reason to care and the other already stocked up on cheap bourbon from a neighboring state to cope with another early exit. 

This allows us Ohioans the opportunity to pick a new team to temporarily pull for. It could be permanent move, however, if you decided the Browns' newest internal promotion – whose most extensive workplace experience is as the owner of the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Club – to oversee football ops is your final straw. 

Either way, feel free to select from this group of Buckeyes. Fourteen will participate throughout the course of this year's playoffs, most of whom play for the Panthers or Steelers.

The hope is at least one of these guys will be the next Nate Ebner:

Spencer Sees the Field

Last week, I wrote about Tampa Bay promoting Evan Spencer to the 53-man roster. 

It was supposed to be a rousing homecoming against the Bears for Spencer, who graduated from Vernon Hills in Illinois. The Bucs did not activate him for the game, leaving doubt as to whether he'd make his NFL debut this year.

As it turns out, the team activated Spencer for their week 17 game against the Panthers. It should come as no surprise that he stood out on special teams and recorded a tackle. 

Play of the WeEk

It took 17 weeks for Terrelle Pryor to resurface in the NFL and eventually make his first catch. 

At the time, it was a huge play to set up a Browns field goal. The late second-half score brought Cleveland back within a touchdown of Pittsburgh. For a second, I imagine Joey Bosa entertained the thought of an upset and a diminished threat of ending up in a Browns uniform. Unfortunately for him, the Steelers went on to win and clinched a playoff spot.

Anyhow, here's Pryor's first NFL catch – as a wide receiver, he previously caught a pass when he played QB for the Raiders in 2012:

How They Fared in Week 17