COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Everyone has reacted to Jalin Marshall's two fumbles at Minnesota on Saturday, one on offense, the other on a dropped punt.

The redshirt freshman heard it on social media from a vocal, but likely comparatively small, segment of the fanbase on Twitter.

Receivers coach Zach Smith said he brought up that reaction to Marshall.

"It never fazed him, it didn't seem like it fazed him, but I wanted to address it because I know he saw it, and I know he's young," Smith said, "so I wanted to make sure that I addressed it with him before it festered into something else."

Smith said other players talked about to Marshall as well, including former OSU receiver Philly Brown, now in the NFL with the Carolina Panthers, who dropped a punt in the Orange Bowl last season.

"It kind of comes with the territory, right?" Smith asked. "People are going to praise you for doing well, they're going to be critical when you do something that's not positive. It's something kind of in the growing process of an athlete at this level that he's got to get used to, and I think he is, just understanding with the good comes the bad."

Urban Meyer reacted to Marshall by acknowledging that the ball security must be better, but reiterating that the freshman's effort will keep him on the field unless the problems don't go away. Meyer said he talked with Smith, and he was thinking about making a change at punt returner, but Smith talked about how aggressive Marshall is going after the ball, so they watched every one of his returns. He's had other issues, but the coaches like what they have seen.

Marshall only took that job from Dontre Wilson in the middle of this season, and it sounds like he'll keep it.

"I felt like, and Coach Meyer felt like, he really gave a lot to our unit being aggressive to the ball, catching the ball, and really not necessarily gaining yards after the catch, but really preventing us from losing yards where the ball is rolling," Smith said. "He was very aggressive to the ball, and that's a trait that we really liked, and so we put him in that situation, and he's been physical since we put him there.

"This last game he had two hiccups. I don't want to jump to any conclusions. It was just kind of a bad day for him, so we're just going to work really hard to make sure he doesn't have another bad day like that."

So how has Marshall reacted?

The former five-star recruit didn't speak with the media after the game Saturday or on Monday. But as several other Buckeyes talked to reporters on the indoor field at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center on Monday afternoon, another figure, in sweats, a winter hat and gloves, made his way out the side door of the indoor field out to the cold.

Small plows had cleared the snow from the outdoor fields at the Buckeyes' football headquarters, even though Monday is the players' usual day off. But this player made his way onto the field. Staying inside, in a perfect climate, wouldn't do any good. Two others soon joined him.

Someone began to punt.

Jalin Marshall, the upper reaches of Ohio Stadium visible behind him, began to catch those punts.

That's how he reacted.