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5. Senior safety Deontai Williams: It’s the sixth collegiate season for Williams, who has had a long and winding path. He was an SEC recruit out of high school, went to junior college instead, got hurt, played well enough to sign with Nebraska and now is going into his fourth year for the Huskers.

Frost said over the winter that he thinks Williams is a “no-doubt” NFL Draft pick, but he missed virtually all of the 2019 season with an injury and then dealt with the same rigmarole as everybody else last fall.

Everybody in college football has motivations, but Williams has a lot to gain by putting together a dynamic final year at Nebraska.

5 newcomers poised to make some noise

1. Freshman running back Gabe Ervin: The freshman running back from Georgia has an advantage that no other incoming running back has had in his first year at Nebraska since Frost arrived: He got to campus in January, meaning he participated in all of winter workouts, spring ball and summer workouts.

Ervin (6-0 and 210 pounds) still has to win the job — and, by all accounts, it’s wide open — but the way coaches and teammates talked about him in the spring, the guess here is that somehow, someway, he’ll have a role this fall.

Ervin has the look of a three-down, Big Ten back. Can he be that right away?



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