
Mitch Sherman
Nebraska Reporter at The Athletic
Covering Nebraska for @TheAthletic | Baseball coach | @LockedOnNeb | @F3Omaha: Clark Kent | #RaisedRoyal | [email protected]
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1 week ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Mitch Sherman
Share LINCOLN, Neb. — Six players on the Nebraska roster are equipped to start at cornerback, according to coach Matt Rhule. The Huskers could start any of five safeties if they had a game to play this week, 10 practices into the spring.Depth in college football is a luxury, and it’s fleeting. The transfer portal reopens Wednesday.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Mitch Sherman
LINCOLN, Neb. - Six players on the Nebraska roster are equipped to start at cornerback, according to coach Matt Rhule. The Huskers could start any of five safeties if they had a game to play this week, 10 practices into the spring. Depth in college football is a luxury, and it's fleeting. The transfer portal reopens Wednesday. Don't expect Nebraska to possess 11 starting-caliber defensive backs in two weeks.
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nytimes.com | Mitch Sherman
LINCOLN, Neb. - This spring on the practice field is part of the second stage in Dana Holgorsen's revamp of the Nebraska offense. Holgorsen arrived in November from the outside and coached three games as the play caller and coordinator. He hardly had time to learn names. In some cases, he did not. Nebraska managed its best offensive showing of 2024 in a 44-point outburst against Wisconsin, sandwiched between up-and-down moments at USC and Iowa.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Mitch Sherman
LINCOLN, Neb. - The small-school quarterback who arrived unannounced last summer at Nebraska's doorstep and threw his way into a roster spot at a tryout camp, Jalyn Gramstad is not afraid to dream big. That much, we had already seen. One piece of Gramstad's motivation in returning to the Huskers in 2025 as a sixth-year senior, we had not. "I have aspirations of going to the NFL and trying to see if my game can (work) there," Gramstad said. It wasn't just a passing comment.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Mitch Sherman
LINCOLN, Neb. - The man who plans to bring swag back to the Nebraska defense walked out of a spring football practice this week with reading glasses hanging from the collar of his red hoodie, a graying beard decorating his jaw and a serious look on his face. John Butler turns 52 on Thursday. To celebrate, he'd probably like nothing more than to sit down and talk about pressuring the quarterback.
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