Team spokesman Jerry Emig said players only lifted weights Monday. He said the team would return to its regular routine with full practices on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
BIG TEN HONORS: The season is more than half over and finally the Buckeyes have their first Big Ten player of the week.
DT John Simon was selected after a career-best eight tackles in the 17-7 victory over previously unbeaten and 16th-ranked Illinois. He also hit a personal best with four tackles for a loss, one off the Ohio State record, including two sacks.
Illinois came in averaging 35 points a game.
The offensive player of the week will be on the Buckeyes' radar screen this and next week. Wisconsin RB Montee Ball ran for three TDs and passed for one in the Badgers' rout of Indiana. He rushed for 142 yards on 14 carries and scored on runs of 5, 35 and 54 yards. He also tossed a 25-yard scoring pass to QB Russell Wilson — giving him more passing yards on Saturday than Ohio State had.
The Big Ten special teams player of the week was Penn State P/K Anthony Fera, who kicked three field goals in a 23-18 win over Purdue and dropped three punts inside the Boilermakers' 20.
The freshman of the week was Ohio native (Cincinnati Moeller HS) Mike Sadler, who averaged 41 yards on five punts in Michigan State's victory over previously unbeaten Michigan.
MACKEY MENTION: Jake Stoneburner is on the midseason watch list for the John Mackey Award, given annually to the nation's top TE by the Nassau (N.Y.) County Sports Commission. He is one of 25 individuals under consideration for the award and one of only four from the Big Ten (Northwestern's Drake Dunsmore, Wisconsin's Jacob Pedersen and Nebraska's Kyler Reed are the others).
Stoneburner, a fourth-year junior from the Columbus suburb of Dublin, leads the Buckeyes with 12 receptions (for 150 yards) and six touchdowns. He caught his sixth TD pass on Saturday against Illinois, a 17-yarder from Braxton Miller that was the only completion of the day for Ohio State in its 17-7 win over the Illini.
Earlier this season against Akron, Stoneburner became the first TE in modern Ohio State history to catch three TDs in a game. Bob Grimes caught four touchdown passes vs. Washington State in a 1952 game. He is listed as an end in Ohio State's media guides for 1950-52, but further research revealed he was, indeed, a tight end.
SIMON SAYS "MORE": Simon also was selected as the Lott IMPACT player of the week.
The Pacific Club IMPACT Foundation, sponsors of the Lott IMPACT Trophy, will make a $1,000 donation to the general scholarship fund at Ohio State.