PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Until preparing his defense this past week, Nebraska defensive coordinator Mark Banker hadn’t done much studying of Leonte Carroo.
What Banker observed before Saturday’s football game, though, may have been his most important homework.
He watched intently as Carroo, the 6-foot-1, 215-pound star receiver for Rutgers, went through pregame warm-ups. Carroo, coming off an ankle injury that had kept him sidelined the past two games, ran pretty good straight ahead.
Carroo’s burst after catching the football, though, was noticeably lacking.
“You could tell stopping and starting and making sharp cuts, that wasn’t what he was going to do today,” Banker said.