Nebraska Football: Receives Quarterback Transfer from NAIA National Player of the Year

It never hurts when you make an addition to your roster who has the following attributes:

1. NAIA National Player of the Year
2. First Team All-American
3. Threw for 3,681 yards, 35 touchdowns and nine interceptions last season
4. Lead Northwestern to a 14-1 season and a runner up national championship
5. Grew up dreaming of being a Husker
6. Hates Iowa

Jalyn Gramstad committed today to joining the Huskers this coming fall and has one year of eligibility remaining plus a redshirt season.

This is a big deal.

Going into the spring one of my major concerns was that the quarterback room was made up of two true freshmen and Heinrich Haarberg who is a junior. That is a small room whose combined college experience (let alone college football experience) resides in the eight games Haarberg started last season.

Now admittedly all of Gramstad’s experience is at the NAIA level but he won at that level and was extremely productive.

The best part of the story is that Nebraska found him because Gramstad showed up at a post-graduate camp. The only two people who knew he was going to be there was his dad and Gramstad himself.

So the Nebraska coaches didn’t even know that a national player of the year was to walk on the field that day.

Gramstad obviously showed out enough that he is going to be a Husker in the fall.

It is my understanding that it can be difficult to transfer from a NAIA school to a NCAA school but they obviously have found a way to make that work.

Hopefully the story just keeps getting better.