You don’t have to step out on too thin a limb to say that the 2019 Nebraska football team will rely heavily on its young players.
One needs only to look at the 2018 season — Scott Frost’s first at the helm — and the five true freshmen who held major roles in quarterback Adrian Martinez, running back Maurice Washington, outside linebacker Caleb Tannor, cornerback Cam Taylor and kicker Barrett Pickering for evidence.
That number could have been much higher, too, had a rash of injuries not put a damper on what Frost and his coaching staff thought the impact of the 2018 class could be.