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 least one game. No non-conference games were allowed to replace lost contests. That means we missed out on the possible Nebraska-UT Chattanooga matchup.
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.
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WHAT WE LEARNED: Ervin and Scott leave spring with a leg up
It’s hard to make very many drastic takes about Nebraska’s running back position coming out of spring ball, but one thing you can probably say is freshmen
Gabe Ervin and
As we know, so much can change between now and August.
Injuries limited and/or kept out both Markese Stepp and
Sevion Morrison remains an unknown but showed some flashes this spring.
Ronald Thompkins looked decent in the open practice, but we didn’t see him in the spring game. Jaquez Yant is a wildcard and could find himself in a position to play. Walk-on
Nebraska Spring Game: Observations and Thoughts as White Beats Red 21-20
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There is no live tackling in the first half. Most people will be watching personnel groupings and trying to get clues at to the likely depth chart going into summer. There won’t be much shown in the way of offensive plays, but hopefully some great individual efforts.
First Quarter
Marvin Scott was called on first to carry the ball.
Logan Smothers is fast.
Quinton Newsome was Cam Taylor-Bitt’s running mate at cornerback for the Red team.
There is a concerted effort to get Omar Manning involved. He made an early appearance with a nice catch and almost another huge one, but bobbled it at the last second.