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Pencil to paper: Sketching out an offensive two-deep for the Huskers ahead of spring ball | Football



Left guard: 1. Ethan Piper, redshirt freshman; 2. Nouredin Nouili, sophomore.

Center: 1. Cameron Jurgens, sophomore; 2. Trent Hixson, junior.

Right guard: 1. Brant Banks, redshirt freshman. 2. Matt Sichterman, junior.

Right tackle: 1. Bryce Benhart, redshirt freshman; 2. Brant Banks, redshirt freshman.

For a group that returns four of five starters from the final game of the 2020 season, there are a lot of moving pieces here. Greg Austin’s group has several players who have seen the field and very few sure-fire, locked-in starters at particular positions.

The maxim for Austin is always to get the best five players on the field.

If Banks, a rising player in the program, is one of the five best, how does he slot in? He has worked at both tackle spots in practice and has the build at 6-foot-6 and 300 pounds of a player who could man an edge. For the sake of this exercise, he slid inside and the two players who have actually started games at tackle (Corcoran and Benhart) remain at tackle.

Putting these names to paper also illustrates how much different NU’s two-deep will look without Brenden Jaimes, Matt Farniok and Boe Wilson. Can Hixson or Bando grab a starting job or serve as a valuable, versatile sixth man? Can any of the other young linemen — whether it’s physically imposing true freshman Henry Lutovsky or reserves like Michael Lynn and Jimmy Fritzche — make a run at the two-deep?



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