“My whole family is from Kansas, but we moved up here (when I was about 5 years old). All anybody talks about up here is Nebraska football. I actually never went to a game until the spring game when I was a senior in high school and they started recruiting me. This was a completely far-fetched possibility for me but coming up here and watching the spring game -- that was the game when Patrick O’Brien, he first walked out and everybody just went crazy -- and I’m thinking, ‘This is a practice and we got 80,000 people here.
My walk-on story: Spring Game showed wide receiver from Aurora how Nebraska football was different
