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I expected more. Shame on me.

Here are the final snap counts and grades for Nebraska’s offense against Illinois, courtesy of PFF. Nebraska QB Adrian Martinez. (Getty) QUARTERBACK HOL take: Quarterback Adrian Martinez led NU in rushing, but most of it came on broken plays. He had two zone and two gap runs for 15 yards, while he had eight scramble […]

The film often revealed Ty Robinson was close a lot last year. Now his coach is looking for him to take the next step and be a...

We start your Monday off with the Weekly Rundown column, as Nebraska is less than two weeks from kickoff at Illinois.

Nebraska will officially begin preparations for Illinois today, as we are less than two weeks from kickoff. We start your Monday off with the Weekly Rundown column. Sure bets You have to feel pretty good about these things right now: A physical running game: One thing I feel pretty good about after over two weeks […]

We size up the Nebraska football team and more in this week's 3-2-1 column.

Nebraska running back coach Ryan Held knows his group has one of the largest question marks by it heading into the season. He is buckling down on finding a starter and several other players he can rely on. “This year as the running backs coach, I’m definitely going to earn my money,” Held said on the Sports Nightly on Tuesday. Nebraska is desperate for consistency at the position and to have a good rotation of players that are talented and can stay healthy. Marvin Scott III had...

The bruising back walked on for the Huskers, but an outstanding spring season landed him a scholarship

We don’t know how the Big Ten Conference will handle COVID-19 Handling COVID-19 in 2020 included postponing the season before bringing it back with a conference-only schedule. Once the season did begin, a complex metric of positivity rates was used to decide if games would even be played. Players were also held out a certain number of days for a positive test or close contact. Nebraska missed out on playing Wisconsin when the Badgers went onto a program pause, and most teams lost out on at le...

These were my surprises of the week: No Big Ten teams will host a regional: I shouldn’t be surprised, but I still am. The fact the Big Ten didn’t have one of the possible 20 NCAA host regional sites was a blow. It also was a message to the league’s tone-deaf leadership that decided to do their own thing by being the only high-profile league in the country to not allow non-conference games. Phalen Sanford’s testing marks: When former strength coach Boyd Epley used to list the top winter ...