He’s had only 10 preseason football practices with his new team. But he already has formed a reasonable opinion about Nebraska’s 4-8 record last season.
“If you see the talent on this team, I don’t understand (that record),” said the former Central Florida safety, who arrived in Lincoln as a graduate transfer intent on becoming a dentist while also putting some teeth into a Husker defense that ranked 101st nationally in 2017.
A 13-game starter last season for the undefeated Knights, Neal’s particularly impressed with Nebraska’s receivers, arguably the strength of the team.
He harkened back to his time at UCF, which climbed from 0-12 in 2015 to 6-7 in 2016 to 13-0 in 2017, with Scott Frost leading the program in 2016 and 2017.