January 2026 Recruiting thread

[Carm]

sweet a backup from ISU will solve our LB problems...we already have several young LBs, we need experienced difference makers. Unless we have some going in the portal this is a headscratcher.

maybe he doesn't have a cost - i.e., will come for no rev share

 

[Flabio]

sweet a backup from ISU will solve our LB problems...we already have several young LBs, we need experienced difference makers. Unless we have some going in the portal this is a headscratcher.

Dude we don’t have anything in the LB room. We need it all atm.

 

[Milo-of-Croton]

My memory may be failing me, but didn’t we really want Hawthorne coming out of HS? If I remember right, he was very good.

 

[NebEngineer]

sweet a backup from ISU will solve our LB problems...we already have several young LBs, we need experienced difference makers. Unless we have some going in the portal this is a headscratcher.

Hawthorn is a true freshmen. Dismissing him as a 'backup' is a bizarre mischaracterization of the situation.

Buckle up its gonna be a long two weeks

 

[NebEngineer]

My memory may be failing me, but didn’t we really want Hawthorne coming out of HS? If I remember right, he was very good.

yes

 

[PonyBoy]

sweet a backup from ISU will solve our LB problems...we already have several young LBs, we need experienced difference makers. Unless we have some going in the portal this is a headscratcher.

We were after him a year ago. Very well can be a depth/ST piece till further developed. Not an endorsement, but a possible reason.

 

[Hedley Lamarr]

We were after him a year ago. Very well can be a depth/ST piece till further developed. Not an endorsement, but a possible reason.

Oh I get and fully understand the possible reason but we also took 3 LBs last year didnt we? Guess we can keep playing the youngest team around card though.

I had just assumed we already had plenty of unproven youth at LB.

 

[Alcaus]

I wish the gayest retards in our fanbase weren’t the ones interacting with recruits on twitter but it’s something only the gayest retards would do so…

 

[vailhusker]

This feels like a "keeping an eye out" post.

Can't really blame him how the season ended. I'm sure he has plenty of people in his ear right now. Rhule needs to somehow pull it together next year and have some positives to point to because you don't want 2027 to turn into the 2008 recruiting class.

 

[vailhusker]

 

[vailhusker]

 

[panther07]

Oh I get and fully understand the possible reason but we also took 3 LBs last year didnt we? Guess we can keep playing the youngest team around card though.

I had just assumed we already had plenty of unproven youth at LB.

They just whiffed on all of their top LB targets in the '26 class, so adding a FR LB is a need. Hawthorne happened to be one of their top targets in the '25 class and was available, hence the early visit.

 

[Hedley Lamarr]

They just whiffed on all of their top LB targets in the '26 class, so adding a FR LB is a need. Hawthorne happened to be one of their top targets in the '25 class and was available, hence the early visit.

We are running more of a 4-2-5 with Aurich right? for young LBs we have Merritt, Jones, Mooberry, Ochoa, Bower that will be Soph or Jr next year. Guess I just assumed we would look for older dudes primarily. Assuming we get the LB from SDSU it doesnt look too bad but just curious.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

We are running more of a 4-2-5 with Aurich right? for young LBs we have Merritt, Jones, Mooberry, Ochoa, Bower that will be Soph or Jr next year. Guess I just assumed we would look for older dudes primarily. Assuming we get the LB from SDSU it doesnt look too bad but just curious.

Do Merritt and Ochoa end up as edges in the 4?

 

[Hedley Lamarr]

Do Merritt and Ochoa end up as edges in the 4?

I hope Merritt doesnt, Ochoa its possible.

 

[panther07]

We are running more of a 4-2-5 with Aurich right? for young LBs we have Merritt, Jones, Mooberry, Ochoa, Bower that will be Soph or Jr next year. Guess I just assumed we would look for older dudes primarily. Assuming we get the LB from SDSU it doesnt look too bad but just curious.

Am I the only one that thought Bower looked slow AF every time he was on the field and had to move side to side?

 

[ChocaEgg]

Am I the only one that thought Bower looked slow AF every time he was on the field and had to move side to side?

Looked like he wasn't sure of what he was doing. Uncertainty can make fast players play slow.

 

[Hedley Lamarr]

Looked like he wasn't sure of what he was doing. Uncertainty can make fast players play slow.

I felt the same way about our entire secondary in the bowl game, Guthrie looked even slower and Benning looked slow as shit too.

 

[Bootleg11]

 

[vailhusker]