by Brady Oltmans | Apr 27, 2023 | Football
The first call came from his father. Chris Nelson, a former Husker All-American wrestler, watched his son live a dream on the familiar Lincoln campus. He witnessed how an ambitious 4-year-old in a wrestling singlet grew into a captain on the Nebraska football team. If...
by Brady Oltmans | Sep 4, 2022 | Football
Nebraska head coach Scott Frost and edge rusher Garrett Nelson each approached the podium after Saturday’s 38-17 win over North Dakota with welled-up eyes. Both Nebraska natives, they watched the team come so close so many times last season only for the game to...
by Brady Oltmans | Aug 25, 2022 | Football
Casey Thompson spoke to the media for the first time since being named Nebraska’s starting quarterback on Aug. 18 during Sunday’s game week press conference. While fielding questions on topics about himself, his teammates, the offense and Nebraska’s first opponent of...
by Brady Oltmans | Aug 22, 2022 | Football
It’s offensive coordinator Mark Whipple’s first season in Lincoln. He’s a veteran football coach who’s held various jobs across 30 years. But sometimes what he’s watched at fall camp sends him back to 2006 in Detroit. At that time Whipple was calling plays for the...
by Jacob Padilla | Aug 22, 2022 | Football
If there was one surprise when Nebraska announced the four players that had been voted captain on Saturday night, it was Caleb Tannor. Garrett Nelson and Travis Vokolek both attended Big Ten Media Days and were as safe a bet to be named captains as one can be based on...
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