As far as we know, Casey Thompson hasn't nailed down Nebraska's starting quarterback job, yet.
After all, he's practiced a grand total of five times with the Huskers. We're in the chilly days of early March. That little late-August skirmish in Ireland is a long time from now.
That said, it's difficult to blame Thompson if he feels like "the man" already.
"If I go somewhere (in Lincoln), I'm probably going to get stopped," the graduate transfer from Texas said Wednesday during his first appearance before Nebraska's media throng. "When I wake up and decide to leave my house and go to a restaurant or go out to any public place, I kind of have to make sure I'm presentable and have to watch who I'm with and what I'm saying.