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| Written by Bugeatersteve | |
| Sunday, 05 August 2007 | |
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2. The defensive front-four. All four starters from last season have moved on, and even though there are four returning players from last seasons team, none of them received significant playing time. Sophomore Ndamukong Suh headlines the group and looks like a future star. Hell start at nose tackle, likely alongside junior Ty Steinkuhler, a workhorse who gets everything out of his talent. Defensive end Barry Turner has yet to prove hes an every-down player, and fellow junior Zach Potter is untested at the base-end position. But other than that, everything should be err, great….3. The kicking game. Last season the Huskers lost 2 games, Texas (24-22) and the Cotton Bowl (17-14) because of the Callahan’s lack of confidence in Jordan Congdon, who has since left the program. Enter Adi Kunalic, the freshman from Fort Worth whose accuracy remains a question. His leg strength is not. Kunalic booted a pair of field goals from longer than 50 yards in high school and has reportedly made a habit of splitting the uprights from 60 this summer at Memorial Stadium. 4. The fullback position. Dane Todd was one of the main reasons that the Husker’s running game bounced back so strongly last season. Todd was basically a 6th lineman paving the way for the Husker I-backs to have great games. Even though he graduated, this was a position that was not recruited at all during the off-season. Leaving us to speculate that maybe they are going to to move senior J.B. Phillips from tight end into a hybrid position, the H-back. Phillips is capable but inexperienced as a lead blocker in the way Nebraska has traditionally relied on its fullbacks. Or maybe a “blast from the past” Makovicka, this time Justin, a 235-pound redshirt freshman who follows brothers Jeff and Joel as an NU fullback will make the difference. 5. The defensive backfield. The Huskers return starters Cortney Grixby and Andre Jones. Both seniors are proven commodities despite troubles a year ago. Nebraska struggled in particular against big-bodied USC, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma receivers who exploited Grixby and Jones for their lack of size. Nebraska simply needs to find more players here. The hope is that Zack Bowman, a 2005 starter who tore his patellar tendon in March, makes a near-miracle recovery to play early. If it's going to happen, Bowman will need to practice this month and show some of the form that had him pegged as a potential high draft pick before he redshirted last year following an ACL tear in August. Well that about covers the Huskers’ concerns going into fall practice on Monday, August 6, 2007. GBR folks.
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