Media was allowed into the Hawks Championship Center to watch about 30 minutes of football practice Wednesday morning. This is the first such opening since 2019. Open practices had yet to happen in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the rest of the spring and disrupted the fall.
KLIN’s Kenny Larabee was in attendance to capture some of the sights.
Verduzco is heading into his fourth season in charge of the QBs in Lincoln. Each season has been preceded by the presumed backup or depth piece leaving the program (Tristan Gebbia & Patrick O’Brien, Noah Vedral, Luke McCaffrey).
Martinez returns for his fourth season in Lincoln. The two-time team captain owns more than a dozen schools records, set during his 27 starts.
Smothers did not play a single snap in the shortened 2020 fall season. He and Heinrich Haarberg are the only QBs on scholarship behind Adrian Martinez.
Haarberg joins Logan Smothers as the only scholarship QBs behind Adrian Martinez. Haarberg is the first in-state scholarship quarterback to sign with Nebraska since 2001.
Masker has yet to play in a game over his three seasons in Lincoln, but he has been on the travel roster each year.
Daniels has played in every game the last two seasons. His play at nose tackle is a key piece for the Blackshirts.
Among those in the group: redshirt freshman Garrett Snodgrass (41), sophomore Luke Reimer (28), junior Chris Kolarevic (31), redshirt freshman Nick Henrich (42), redshirt freshman Jackson Hannah (10), and sophomore Zach Schlager (25).
