Anybody who watched Nebraska’s Red-White Spring Game in April got a sense of what freshman Adrian Martinez can do in the quarterback run game.
The question about how much he will be asked to do so, though, has grown significantly more pertinent in the wake of Tristan Gebbia’s decision to transfer.
It’s certainly not ideal to enter the season-opener with one eligible scholarship signal-caller and two walk-ons behind him — one a freshman who only arrived on campus in May — but quarterbacks coach Mario Verduzco on Wednesday said he didn’t think coach Scott Frost and his staff would go too far toward trying to protect Martinez from getting hit.