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Tuesday notebook: No guarantees with new position battles
***Players who sat out of Tuesday's practice: Tre Bryant, Bryan Reimers, Marcus Newby and Joshua Kalu.
***Players who wore green no-contact jerseys: Aaron Williams and De'Mornay Pierson-El.
***Players who did practice who have been out with injuries: David Knevel, Matt Farniok, Cole Conrad, Stanley Morgan, and Tyrin Ferguson.
***Cornerback Chris Jones wore a helmet, jersey, shorts and cleats on Tuesday, and was able to do some light work in practice.
***Defensive coordinator Bob Diaco praised linebacker Luke Gifford's development his season, saying Gifford is now a player the staff really doesn't ever want to take out of the game.
***Diaco said injuries have forced NU to get pretty far down the linebacker depth chart, but that's not totally a bad thing. He said a guy like Collin Miller has been getting "a ton of reps" this week and has done a nice job.
***Diaco said even though Illinois has used two quarterbacks much of this season, the offense doesn't change much regardless of which QB is in the game.
***Diaco subtly knocked the Big Ten's scheduling for making Nebraska play on a short week while Illinois is coming off a bye. That said, he said the Huskers have really been engaged in practice this week.
***Another good thing about a short week is the Huskers don't have time to overthink things with their game plan, Diaco said.
***Center Michael Decker said Nebraska ran some variation of the same running play 31 times vs. Rutgers. The play was called "Csonka", but that's all the details Decker would give.
***Right tackle Brenden Jaimes said he graded out at a 71 during his first start on Saturday, which tied for the lowest grade on the offensive line. Obviously there is lots of room for improvement, but Jaimes said he was pretty happy with his debut.
***Decker said that even though he and Conrad are battling for the starting job this week, he thinks he's definitely earned more playing time. Regardless of who starts, Decker said he knows both he and Conrad are going to play.
***Tight end Tyler Hoppes said the short week has been more taxing mentally than it has been physically. Though the practice intensity has been lighter, they've had to cram the game plan and scouting of Illinois in with a day less of prep.
Tuesday notebook: No guarantees with new position battles
***Players who sat out of Tuesday's practice: Tre Bryant, Bryan Reimers, Marcus Newby and Joshua Kalu.
***Players who wore green no-contact jerseys: Aaron Williams and De'Mornay Pierson-El.
***Players who did practice who have been out with injuries: David Knevel, Matt Farniok, Cole Conrad, Stanley Morgan, and Tyrin Ferguson.
***Cornerback Chris Jones wore a helmet, jersey, shorts and cleats on Tuesday, and was able to do some light work in practice.
***Defensive coordinator Bob Diaco praised linebacker Luke Gifford's development his season, saying Gifford is now a player the staff really doesn't ever want to take out of the game.
***Diaco said injuries have forced NU to get pretty far down the linebacker depth chart, but that's not totally a bad thing. He said a guy like Collin Miller has been getting "a ton of reps" this week and has done a nice job.
***Diaco said even though Illinois has used two quarterbacks much of this season, the offense doesn't change much regardless of which QB is in the game.
***Diaco subtly knocked the Big Ten's scheduling for making Nebraska play on a short week while Illinois is coming off a bye. That said, he said the Huskers have really been engaged in practice this week.
***Another good thing about a short week is the Huskers don't have time to overthink things with their game plan, Diaco said.
***Center Michael Decker said Nebraska ran some variation of the same running play 31 times vs. Rutgers. The play was called "Csonka", but that's all the details Decker would give.
***Right tackle Brenden Jaimes said he graded out at a 71 during his first start on Saturday, which tied for the lowest grade on the offensive line. Obviously there is lots of room for improvement, but Jaimes said he was pretty happy with his debut.
***Decker said that even though he and Conrad are battling for the starting job this week, he thinks he's definitely earned more playing time. Regardless of who starts, Decker said he knows both he and Conrad are going to play.
***Tight end Tyler Hoppes said the short week has been more taxing mentally than it has been physically. Though the practice intensity has been lighter, they've had to cram the game plan and scouting of Illinois in with a day less of prep.
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