COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Urban Meyer isn't afraid to build Joey Bosa up. New defensive line coach Larry Johnson said he'll make sure to keep his star defensive end back on earth. But it's hard to imagine Bosa, a Florida kid through and through who proved to be a beast on the field as a freshman but comes across like a guy relaxing on the beach, getting too full of himself.

"It's great to get all this attention and everything," Bosa said during spring practice of the freshman All-American honors he earned last year. "But it never really affected me. I'm still a freshman and they still pick on me. I'm still just a new kid pretty much. I don't have a big head. I just keep doing what I'm doing."

Meyer has made it clear, repeatedly, what he thinks Bosa could wind up doing. In a receent CBSSports.com interview, Meyer repeated what he's been saying since Bosa grabbed a starting job early last season and recorded 44 tackles (10th on the team), 13.5 tackles for loss (third) and 7.5 sacks (second).

He thinks Bosa could be an all-timer, one of the best he has ever coached.

Johnson said he's OK with the boss speaking so highly of Bosa, "as long as Bosa can handle it."

"I'm the guy to calm the storm in the meeting room," Johnson said with a smile. "But he's a great young man."

“Coach J is super positive. He’s really never tearing anyone down,” Bosa said. “The coaches have been much more positive in trying to coach and make us better. It’s been very positive.”

Johnson also plans to rotate the linemen more, which should mean Bosa losing some snaps to backups like Steve Miller and Tyquan Lewis.

But the biggest change will come because of what he did last year. Bosa played like a guy who was ready, not a teenager. In snagging his starting role, he never seemed like the new kid. As a sophomore, there will be no more surprises.

“I think the key is that he doesn’t stay the same,” Johnson said. “He’s got to move forward. Every time you step on the field, you’ve got to be a better player, because he’s going to be a marked guy. They’re going to turn protection to him, they’re going to chip him, so he’ll see a different game than he saw last year, because they know who he is. So he’s got to get prepared for that, and right now, he’s done a good job.”

In the end, Meyer expects that Bosa will do a great job.