Who is the most overrated player in Nebraska Football History?

[Interloper]

Odd for you as 1/2 of ATL could give a shit about the Falcons, and the other half barely cares about the only year GT has ever been elite in CFB…-

I had Falcons season tickets and wore my Husker gear a lot, so I heard it from the neighbors in my section but you're right about the Tech fans, I only really knew one...the rest were Dawg fans giving me grief about us losing to GT but I'd just rib them about Ray Goof (Goff) until they'd leave me alone.

 

[Adolph Coors]

My heretical Nebraska take is that Suh was slightly overrated. A great player who should have won the Heisman, but piled up stats in a couple games, and dominated McCoy & Texas so memorably that people think he was that dominant every game. More a case of the folklore getting swept away than any real negatives about him.

what the actual fuck

 

[ZJSARENOTFREE]

So I guess the question is are we basing "overrated" on how highly touted they were coming vs their production? Or is it the perception people have of the players (they aren't really as good as people remember them to be)?

More of a perception thing to me and hindsight looking back.

 

[skerfan]

what the actual fuck

So first they attack Jason Peter then Suh? This is the worst collection of takes I have seen on the board.

 

[Jim14510]

This is the worst collection of takes I have seen on the board.

Tempted to perma delete it and pretend it didn't happen.

 

[nja13]

Matt Davison

You could make a pretty good argument that Matt Davison is very underrated as a player.

I hear a lot of "he made his whole career out of one lucky catch as a freshman." That's a huge disservice to a guy who graduated behind only Johnny Rogers on the NU all-time catches and receiving yards lists.

I know his close assocation with Scott Frost and reputation as a d-bag contributes to negative feelings about him today and is motivation to downplay his contributions as a player, but I actually think his playing career gets underrated by most.

 

[Pepe Silvia]

So first they attack Jason Peter then Suh? This is the worst collection of takes I have seen on the board.

"Suh deserved to win the Heisman as a DT, but is also overrated" Is one one of the more insane takes I've seen

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

"Suh deserved to win the Heisman as a DT, but is also overrated" Is one one of the more insane takes I've seen

The inability of people to correctly understand the word "overrated" is undefeated.

It's a measurement of two data points relative to each other, not a measure of greatness/badness.

 

[Jim14510]

The inability of people to correctly understand the word "overrated" is undefeated.

It's a measurement of two data points relative to each other, not a measure of greatness/badness.

He's in the conversation of greatest college defensive players ever and deservedly so. There is no measurement that results in overrated. I'll have to discuss with @HuskerGarrett but this is permaban worthy posting. Potentially sending our currently in hiding assassin @Baron Winnebago after you. That's not nearly as scary as it sounds.

 

[Steveweiser316]

You could make a pretty good argument that Matt Davison is very underrated as a player.

I hear a lot of "he made his whole career out of one lucky catch as a freshman." That's a huge disservice to a guy who graduated behind only Johnny Rogers on the NU all-time catches and receiving yards lists.

I know his close assocation with Scott Frost and reputation as a d-bag contributes to negative feelings about him today and is motivation to downplay his contributions as a player, but I actually think his playing career gets underrated by most.

Whatever you say, Dean

 

[Milo-of-Croton]

“Don’t Andre Jones me”
- Corey McKeon

This guy - so many names mentioned that should on the list - but none more than McKeon. He was awful.

 

[TampaBaySkers]

This guy - so many names mentioned that should on the list - but none more than McKeon. He was awful.

I think most agree he’s awful so how is he overrated ?

 

[Stan Raymond]

I think most agree he’s awful so how is he overrated ?

If anything I'd say he is under rated as most Nebraska fans I know, including myself, think he was pretty awful. When he actually didn't have that bad of a career, he just finished it in a really bad way and left a real bad perception.

 

[Omar Little]

You could make a pretty good argument that Matt Davison is very underrated as a player.

I hear a lot of "he made his whole career out of one lucky catch as a freshman." That's a huge disservice to a guy who graduated behind only Johnny Rogers on the NU all-time catches and receiving yards lists.

I know his close assocation with Scott Frost and reputation as a d-bag contributes to negative feelings about him today and is motivation to downplay his contributions as a player, but I actually think his playing career gets underrated by most.

That’s one way of explaining his career here.


Here’s another

 

[Milo-of-Croton]

I think most agree he’s awful so how is he overrated ?

He was constantly in front of the media, supposedly a great leader, the backbone of the team. He was not as good as advertised. That is my opinion. Your definition of over rated may be different than mine,