Steven M. Sipple, Parker Gabriel and Chris Basnett take stock of the Nebraska football team midway through preseason camp. The running back picture is beginning to clear up, but four contenders remain. There are injury concerns at tight end and on the offensive line. Two freshmen are battling it out to be Adrian Martinez’s primary backup. All that and more on the latest edition of the Husker Extra podcast.
Tight ends Austin Allen and Travis Vokolek weren’t at Nebraska football practice Wednesday, when media was able to watch the opening minutes of the workout.
But Husker coach Scott Frost said Friday both players will be back on the field at some point.
Allen, the junior tight end from Aurora, was given a little time off, Frost said. Vokolek, another junior, is “knicked up a little bit,” but NU expects him back.
The tight end position has taken a hit during fall camp, Frost said.
“Every camp it seems like there’s one position where you have a rash of those things,” Frost said.
One player in the tight end room — Frost didn’t say who — has undergone an appendectomy. There’s been another “little fluke thing” with another player, he added.
That’s led the Huskers to make a couple of roster moves to get more players in the position. Chancellor Brewington, a 6-foot-3, 185-pound receiver who transferred to NU from Northern Arizona, has been moved to tight end, Frost said, adding that he thinks Brewington is bigger than his listed weight.
Redshirt freshman Jacob Herbek, a 6-foot-5, 265-pounder from Grand Island Central Catholic, has also been added to the tight end room.
Frost feels better about Nebraska COVID-19 vaccination rate than he did a few weeks ago, he said. NU has had “some resistance” from players in getting vaccinated, but the Huskers have brought in several experts to talk to the team. The coach reiterated that he believes Nebraska’s best chance to have an uninterrupted season is to have a high vaccination rate.
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