COLUMBUS, OHIO ? One day after athletic director Andy Geiger announced that 10 Ohio State football players had been declared eligible by the NCAA, several teammates said Thursday they never were aware the players were ineligible.

In a story in Thursday’s edition of The Columbus Dispatch, Geiger said the players were reinstated by the NCAA after they were declared ineligible Aug. 14, for being paid an hourly wage by a health care company for signing autographs.