By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) –

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Former Ohio State defensive linemen Doug Worthington and Thaddeus Gibson were perfecting an agility drill with OSU strength and conditioning coach Eric Lichter on Tuesday. They were two of the dozen or so Buckeyes striving for every little edge in speed and strength while preparing to work out for NFL teams.

Not Aaron Pettrey. Though he’s one of four Buckeyes — along with Worthington, Gibson and safety Kurt Coleman — invited to the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis next week, Ohio State’s former kicker isn’t worried about tenths of seconds.

“This isn’t for me,” Pettrey said, watching his former teammates sweat. “I don’t think [NFL people] care if you’re an athlete. If you make field goals and hit kickoffs, they’ll take you.”

Now completely recovered from his in-season knee injury, Pettrey has something else to think about at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. Actually, it’s someone. Former Buckeye buy prescription drugs online without prescription kicker Mike Nugent, now a free agent, is getting himself ready for his own round of workouts right beside Pettrey.

“If you would have asked me senior year, where do you see yourself in five years, I wouldn’t have expected to be a free agent looking for a job,” Nugent said. “But that can happen in kicking and you have to roll with it.”

No kicker has been drafted in the first three rounds since Nugent went in the second round of the 2005 draft to the New York Jets. He kicked for the Jets for three seasons, but has since been let go by the Jets, Tampa Bay and Arizona. With only 32 jobs out there, every kicker has……

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