Can 2025 Be the Year Nebraska’s Wide Receivers Finally Live Up to the Hype?

When Brian Christopherson came on the Common Fan Podcast earlier this year, he summed up how a lot of Nebraska fans have felt about the wide receiver position over the last several years. 

“Every offseason, about now...I talk myself into, man, they’ve got like eight or nine guys. How are they going to get the ball to all these guys? This is awesome. And then you get to November and…there's only like three guys. There's nobody else.”

I shared a similar sentiment in an article about the wide receivers in the spring: For whatever reason, Nebraska football missing on wide receiver recruits has become an unwelcome tradition over the last ten years or so. Mike Riley’s “Calibraska” movement comes to mind, with some big name, four star recruits that got the fan base excited but either never ended up committing, or didn’t see the field once they got to Lincoln. Scott Frost brought in six wide receivers in his first recruiting class, as he tried to infuse his team with speed from a mix of the high school and junior college ranks. Most of those guys ended up transferring or having a limited impact. I could go on and on. 

There have of course been some standouts, with Trey Palmer and Stanley Morgan in particular coming to mind. They are the only two receivers in Nebraska history to have 1,000+ yard receiving seasons, both having accomplished that feat within the last seven years. But it seems to be an all-too-regular occurrence that…

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