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Husker walk-on receiver Warner earned a starting spot, now he's aiming to keep it

Related Topics: Walk-on (sports), Canton, Ohio

You can’t blame a dad for thinking his son maybe has a pretty good arm. Especially when that dad threw for more than 32,000 yards and 208 touchdowns over a dozen NFL seasons and has a bust at the league’s Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

“We saw that in spring ball and even in walk-throughs before spring ball that everybody is going to get reps, and if you can play, you’re going to be out there playing,” Warner told a throng of reporters. “So from the very start, what they were preaching and what they were showing out there, everybody knew that they could play here.