Nebraska football Signing Day: The 6 recruits who got away
You can’t get ’em all on signing day. And each year, however well Nebraska football might recruit, there are some prospects who get away.
In the 2024 cycle, that includes two players who had previously been committed to the Huskers, a teammate of one of NU’s top signees, an in-state tight end and one of the nation’s fastest players. A brief look at the prospects not quite landed by the Huskers:
Wide receiver Gatlin Bair: Technically it’s not over for the 6-foot-3, 185-pound speedster who plays in tiny Burley, Idaho. The Top 100 recruit may take his recruitment to February, in part because he may take a two-year religious mission that delays his arrival at any school. Nebraska connected early with Bair — who runs an astonishing 10.15 100-meter dash — but he appears to be focused on Michigan and Oregon. Given those teams’ success over the last decade, that makes sense.
Tight end Michael Burt: Coach Matt Rhule has dominated recruiting inside the state’s borders for two cycles and landed the top in-state tight end, Carter Nelson, for the 2024 class. Burt, a 6-foot-6, 250-pounder out of Omaha Creighton Prep, would have made a nice inline complement to Nelson’s skills. Fact is, NU barely recruited Burt until he went to a camp near St. Louis and earned an invitation to a camp at Iowa. There, he got a scholarship that he eventually accepted. Does Iowa know how to spot tight end talent? Does a ribeye steak taste good?
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