Throughout the spring and summer, I hedged my expectations about Nebraska based on Tanner Lee. Would he be the guy that NFL scouts had been raving about all summer long? Or would he be the Tulane washout that was so indistinguishable from redshirt freshman Patrick O’Brien that NU’s Billy Devaney called them “Patrick Lee and Tanner O’Brien” in the spring? Quite a few commenters here ridiculed my concerns over the summer.
I don’t think they’re laughing anymore.
When Northern Illinois’ Shawun Lurry picked off Lee’s fourth pass of the game, I grabbed my phone and tweeted “Tulane Tanner” as Lurry crossed the goal line.