Driving for 6: Updated look at Huskers’ 2022 QB recruiting; Taylor-Britt talks leadership; Ekeler to Tennessee | Football

As it often is in recruiting, the timing will be interesting. Quarterbacks tend to commit early and some certainly have this cycle, but this is also going to be a unique year in many ways. How many will wait until the summer to visit schools and how many will want to try to sort things out this spring?

Quarterback is always an important position to recruit, of course, and particularly so this year considering NU has just three scholarship quarterbacks currently on its roster. 

2. In a recent interview on the “Sports Nightly” radio program, Nebraska junior defensive back Cam Taylor-Britt said returning to school for a fourth season instead of jumping early to the NFL was an easy call and cited his own development path and also the chance to play another year with his current teammates.

“I wanted to stay and become a better person, player, teammate and just the best person I can be,” Taylor-Britt said. “I believe this year gives me a lot more time to mature as a player and man and everything else I want to be and that’s why I came back.”

3. The Montgomery, Alabama native and 2020 second-team All-Big Ten corner according to the league’s coaches said he’s expecting stiff competition from his younger teammates.

The Husker secondary has three starters back – Taylor-Britt plus returning senior safeties Deontai Williams and Marquel Dismuke – but a wave of players who will push for time. That includes a competition that’s likely to include Braxton Clark, Quinton Newsome, Nadab Joseph and potentially freshmen Tamon Lynum and Marques Buford at corner and then Noa Pola-Gates, Myles Farmer, Isaac Gifford and perhaps Javin Wright behind the starters at safety.