Nebraska Football: 5 takeaways from Scott Frost’s inaugural season

1. Top 25 recruiting class provides bright future

The largest win for Scott Frost this offseason was this goldmine of recruits that he’s brought in after his first full season as head coach of Nebraska. Nebraska had glaring needs on the defense and in some spots on offense and went out and secured the 22nd-ranked recruiting class nationally.

Nebraska’s recruiting class ranks fourth behind Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State, leaving the Huskers as the top recruiting class in the West division of the Big Ten. As far as their needs go, they needed players on defense that could stop the run, more bodies in the quarterback and running back rooms, and someone to replace Stanley Morgan Jr.

The top recruit in their class is Nick Henrich, an interior linebacker who ranks as the eighth-best linebacker nationally. He is one of the highest-ranked players in the state of Nebraska and he’s considered one of the best to come out of Omaha.

Nebraska loses both starting interior linebackers and Henrich alongside Garrett Snodgrass are expected to help fill those voids. I’ve mentioned Luke McCaffrey and how him simply being in the quarterback room helps by adding some depth there.

The Cornhuskers also bring in four running backs including Dedrick Mills, the highest ranked JUCO running back out of Garden City Comunity College.

They also bring in the second-ranked all-purpose back in the class in Wandale Robinson who switched from Kentucky to Nebraska in the early part of December. He is an incredibly shifty running back who played plenty of snaps as a wide receiver. It’s hard to bring Robinson down because not many people can touch the slippery all-purpose back when he gets in space. He’s not the biggest of players but his game leaves little doubt to what he could achieve.

Expect a lot of these guys to come in and lay immediately as Frost tries to take command of the Big Ten West in his second season.