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The Big Ten saw 44 of its brightest stars get selected in the 2021 NFL Draft, second only to the SEC, and seven players from the conference heard their name called in the very first round. Potent offensive weapons like Ohio State and Minnesota’s Justin Fields and Rashod Bateman, as well as defensive difference-makers like […]
The highest-rated recruit taking an official visit to Nebraska this weekend was four-star running back Justin Williams from Dallas (Ga.). Williams was at the airport getting ready to head back home thinking that he wished he had more time to stay in Nebraska. “The trip went well,” Williams said. “Sucks to be at the airport. […]
May 19, 2021
It was inevitable we were going to see some movement in Nebraska’s running back room from now until August, and that first piece turned on Wednesday.
Third-year freshman
HuskerOnline has confirmed.
The 5-foot-11, 195-pound Thompkins found himself in a very crowded room that featured six scholarship players, along with at least two walk-on running backs who were receiving reps with the top offensive units.
Coming out of the spring freshmen
Gabe Ervin,
Jaqeuz Yant pulled ahead of the pack.
Before coming to Lincoln, Thompkins suffered a major knee injury that also knocked him out for the entire 2019 season at NU. He missed a majority of the 2017 and 2018 seasons for Loganville (Ga.) Grayson as a junior and senior.