2024-25 Nebraska Football Roster Attrition + Graduation

[ac husker]

good teams aren’t losing this amount of starters. They could trim fat with walk ons and other players who never see the field. Some of the guys leaving seems a bit odd.

We weren’t a good team.

 

[Black Dean]

With the 105 even the lower level teams are going to have a good level of talented players. Unfortunately though the guys that used to get a chance to play at that level will be bagging groceries at the local Hy-Vee.

Taking the Kurt Warner route….nice

 

[Ironwardog]

Yes, not long ago, everyone was saying we need to purge the roster and start over. We ended up barely with 6 wins, I don't think to many are must keep guys.

Bingo, I’m a little upset we lost EJ but not going to lose sleep over it by any means. Until proven otherwise these players are only capable of winning 5-6 games a year HERE. They have a mediocre mentality in a lot of them. Hopefully guys like EJ and prince well, who’s overall talent is better than 5-6 wins, can go somewhere that winning will be instilled back into them and we can get some guys in here who have experienced winning even if they aren’t quite as talented as the guys they are replacing.
We are going to have a larger turnover this year but I’m guessing unless we go full NFL style with player contracts this transfer thing is probably going to continue to get worse where we do lose a couple of fan-favorites every season.

 

[iruletheskool]

Backs looked like absolute dogshit until EJ started getting more carries

They looked fine until Rahmir got hurt

 

[Lionsfan93]

I can’t see RB really being a high dollar nil position to start with. Similar to the nfl, backs are a dime a dozen.

Except the Ravens and Eagles are proving that narrative wrong. Good backs are a dime a dozen, but great backs are worth their weight in gold.

 

[Herbie]

Except the Ravens and Eagles are proving that narrative wrong. Good backs are a dime a dozen, but great backs are worth their weight in gold.

There’s always exceptions to rules and Henry is that for now

I’m a firm believer of you never want to give an nfl rb their second contract. So many go down, we’ll see how Saqons body holds up the next 4-5 years of his deal.

Similar to how Ashton Jeanty would be the exception to the rule this year in CFB if the open market.

But EJ isn’t similar to Jeanty or a college equivalent to either nfl back

 

[Dell Husker]

Extra bowl practices are nice for 2025. Except when nobody stays to practice

 

[ChocaEgg]

Extra bowl practices are nice for 2025. Except when nobody stays to practice

Yeah, not quite the benefit we were hoping now that ~40% of our 2025 team won't even be present for the extra practices.

 

[Ripping Lips]

I'll just say is that Cockeye has had better RB's than Nebraska for a long time. I'm sure a lot of it is our OL and scheme and our defense can't tackle for shit which makes opposing RB's look spectacular, but we don't have a big punishing back like the top BIG or SEC schools do. EJ was a descent back between the 20's, but once in the red zone, we've always switched to Dowdell to punch it in. Maybe that's why EJ moved on or was asked to move on.

 

[Kazman5k]

 

[Fargo Husker]

Suck it, Seminoles

 

[Herbie]

Floribraska is back

 

[ChocaEgg]

 

[Juro]

Agreed.

But in Rhule’s defense, hard to figure if Satt was bad when he had a really bad hand to deal with last year.

No excuse this year.

 

[Bootleg11]

Yeah, not quite the benefit we were hoping now that ~40% of our 2025 team won't even be present for the extra practices.

Did ya'll think that kids wouldn't transfer?

 

[MaxHuskers34]

Just thinking out loud. The way we are losing guys, why would Raiola hang around, unless this was planned? We had the lowest attrition in the country last year. If we wanted these guys to stay, they would.

That's not at all how this works starting this year. Next year there is a 105 man roster limit. We knew we were losing a lot of people this season. The funniest part is a lot of people thought it would be non contributors on a 6-6 team that left. I like that everyone with ties to the losing culture (Frost guys) are the ones being processed.

 

[herbsinator]

The bottom line is that we just have to wait to see how it plays out over the next couple of weeks. Can’t make a judgment on anyone leaving until we figure out who we bring in.

 

[ChocaEgg]

 

[Dell Husker]

 

[PonyBoy]

And that name is?