What can we do at WR?

[Tsakoi]

We absolutely need to reinforce the WR room at the end of this year. Marcus Washington and Billy Kemp will exhaust their eligibility as seniors. From the juniors you have Garcia-Castenada returning from a major injury and Joshua Fleeks who seems underwhelming to say the least. (Note: I have him as a junior, but possibly a senior with a COVID year in his pocket...not sure)

Then we have Sophomore Bullock who is at best a serviceable #3 or #4. Followed by a host of true freshmen, none of which have shown they are ready to step up and even if they did we would need 3 of them to do so, which doesn't seem likely.

The transfer portal seems like the answer to our problems, but who in the fuck are we gonna attract with our pathetic passing attack and having a #1 & #2 QB who are considered "Runners" not passers? We ain't gonna be able to land game changers or anyone considered top shelf. So what do we do?

Do we scour the JUCOs for some bounce backers or overlooked guys? That seems bleak. I also highly doubt our incoming freshman class will have anyone capable. (See this year's)

What do we do?

 

[cwessel76]

 

[ChocaEgg]

Need a minimum of four portal guys. Maybe hit the JC ranks for a few too. That position is straight-up ass.

 

[Poor_and_Stupid]

Good observation. Failing to get Uncle Donny’s nephew hurts doubly when you consider how shitty our WR recruiting will be.

 

[HCFord1]

I’ll tell ya what we can do at WR

Spoiler

We can run the damn ball.

 

[Tsakoi]

Need a minimum of four portal guys. Maybe hit the JC ranks for a few too. That position is straight-up ass.

We absolutely do not have 4 scholarships available for transfer WRs.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Firs and foremost, they need to figure out how many, if any, of these guys are worth a shit

NAME	POS	LOCATION	HT	WT	STARS	RATING	COMMITTED
Jaidyn Doss	WR	Peculiar, MO	6'1"	195		5.7	6/3/22 SIGNED
Brice Turner	WR	Bay City, TX	6'2"	165		5.5	12/6/22 SIGNED
Jaylen Lloyd	WR	Omaha, NE	6'1"	160		5.5	12/17/22 SIGNED
Malachi Coleman	WR	Lincoln, NE	6'5"	196		6	12/21/22 SIGNED
Jeremiah Charles	WR	Arlington, TX	6'2"	170		5.4	1/23/23 SIGNED
Demitrius Bell	WR	Nashville, TN	6'1"	185		5.8	1/24/23

In case you took a blow to the head, that's 7 freshmen WRs and then they have 4 more committed this year in McMorris, Hall, Barney, and Clark. So that's a grand total of 11 dudes already

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

We had 7(!) WRs in our 2023 recruiting class, including multiple highly-rated guys. We have at least 4 WRs in our 2024 class.

It's obviously a priority to Rhule, and we should have some of those '23 guys ready to be significant producers by next year. True freshman don't typically come in & set the world on fire at WR, but by next year, I expect we'll be feeling a lot better about this class. It'll still be a young & unproven room, guessing we'll add some transfer portal help, but the core answer here is developing the substantial young talent we've acquired.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

We had 7(!) WRs in our 2023 recruiting class, including multiple highly-rated guys. We have at least 4 WRs in our 2024 class.

It's obviously a priority to Rhule, and we should have some of those '23 guys ready to be significant producers by next year. True freshman don't typically come in & set the world on fire at WR, but by next year, I expect we'll be feeling a lot better about this class. It'll still be a young & unproven room, guessing we'll add some transfer portal help, but the core answer here is developing the substantial young talent we've acquired.

We know we can't see Bell this year, but it will be interesting to see which receivers get on the field in some capacity this year.

 

[cwessel76]

We know we can't see Bell this year, but it will be interesting to see which receivers get on the field in some capacity this year.

I prefer 5’10” white guys from Broken Bow and if you don’t you’re a godless Commie Pinko

 

[skerfan]

We absolutely need to reinforce the WR room at the end of this year. Marcus Washington and Billy Kemp will exhaust their eligibility as seniors. From the juniors you have Garcia-Castenada returning from a major injury and Joshua Fleeks who seems underwhelming to say the least. (Note: I have him as a junior, but possibly a senior with a COVID year in his pocket...not sure)

Then we have Sophomore Bullock who is at best a serviceable #3 or #4. Followed by a host of true freshmen, none of which have shown they are ready to step up and even if they did we would need 3 of them to do so, which doesn't seem likely.

The transfer portal seems like the answer to our problems, but who in the fuck are we gonna attract with our pathetic passing attack and having a #1 & #2 QB who are considered "Runners" not passers? We ain't gonna be able to land game changers or anyone considered top shelf. So what do we do?

Do we scour the JUCOs for some bounce backers or overlooked guys? That seems bleak. I also highly doubt our incoming freshman class will have anyone capable. (See this year's)

What do we do?

Holy shit! Our 7 first year freshmen at WR arent getting 100 yards per game yet. WTF we going to do! Fire Rhule. Impeach the Governor. Declare marshall law.

 

[ChocaEgg]

We absolutely do not have 4 scholarships available for transfer WRs.

probably not, but we should (assuming we're serious about not having the worst WR corps in P5)

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Holy shit! Our 7 first year freshmen at WR arent getting 100 yards per game yet. WTF we going to do! Fire Rhule. Impeach the Governor. Declare marshall law.

An excellent touch

 

[Kaladin]

Declare marshall law.

Not a bad idea

Could help us prevent some of these instate guys from leaving

 

[cwessel76]

Not a bad idea

Could help us prevent some of these instate guys from leaving

Dare I say…build a wall around Nebraska?

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Dare I say…build a wall around Nebraska?

If I had my druthers, it'd be a state with slightly more talent

 

[Jim14510]

How much is WR and how much is it QB play? H2 had the best game passing so far and he was 14/24 for 158 and 2 tuddys. Fidone was 6 targets 1 drop 4/42/1 of that. RB's 3/29.

So throws to WR's were 7/15 for 87. 3 drops by Kemp. 5 bad throws by H2.

Just not a lot of opportunity to even make plays. Washington is good. 4 targets 2 catches. Alex 1 target went for 33 yards. Tommie Hill needs to quite getting any targets imo but his 1 target wasn't a catchable ball. Fleeks 1 target went for 4 yards.

 

[Scarlet ObsessioN]

Not to pile on Kemp here but did he look less explosive to anyone else? If he’s our best weapon in space right now that is tough. I trust Rhule to get those speedy freshman going soon.

 

[Jim14510]

Not to pile on Kemp here but did he look less explosive to anyone else? If he’s our best weapon in space right now that is tough. I trust Rhule to get those speedy freshman going soon.

He still looked quick to me. 3 drops were tough to watch.

 

[cwessel76]

He still looked quick to me. 3 drops were tough to watch.

Agreed…bad hands.

He does look more quick than fast to me.