Earlier this week, as reported by Ken Gordon, freshmen offensive linemen Mike Adams and JB Shugarts were charged with a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia following a routine traffic stop on January 14th.

Today the charge against Adams was dropped following his pretrial hearing for insufficient evidence. Garth Cox, attorney for both Adams and Shugarts said that the drug tests on the pipe found in the car showed no signs of controlled substances and Adams submitted to a drug test that came back negative. Cox said that Adams will still pay the fine for running the stop sign.

While Shugarts’ pretrial is scheduled for Wednesday, Cox is confident that his charge will be dropped as well because he also passed a drug test.

This is good news for the Buckeyes as the thought of two possible starting offensive linemen being convicted for drug paraphernalia serves as a black eye for the program going into spring practices.