BEATRICE — Five days before the start of the 2022 NFL Draft, Beth Jurgens flashes a smile as she navigates through a steady line that has formed for the big guy at the table set up near the back of Uhl’s Sporting Goods.
“It’s like a family reunion,” she muses.
That’s certainly the feel on Fifth Street as familiar faces stop by to see her son, Cameron, one last time before he becomes only the second Beatrice native in recent memory to hear his name called in the draft and, just maybe, the highest-picked Nebraska football alum in more than a decade.