Former Players Who Transferred- Stats

Archy1221 said:
Yep.  I really like how he plays, his routes, and his versatility. He seems sneaky fast too 
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Leaving out some things that make a long term good player. He's extremely smart- he understands the game, coverages, concepts and has great technique. He understands leverage and where the holes are going to be in the defense. 

 He also is very calm and situationally aware. Watch when he is interviewing. Confident, knowledgeable, no hesitation, no stammering. He can create separation and knows how to alter his routes and get offs to help create separation. Excellent body control, lowers his hips well on the breaks so he doesn't have to slow down. Just a really smooth player. Really good get to say the very least. 

 
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Undone said:
Again - what he went on to do or not do at another program cannot necessarily be reverse engineered into what he would or wouldn't have done for the 'skers in 2020.
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 An inherently flawed and unproductive player at a mediocre program in a weak conference isn't going to fare any better at NU than TCU. 

Wandale has shown he is a P5 football player- JD has not. Not since his season end meltdown. 

 
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Nebraska55fan said:
 An inherently flawed and unproductive player at a mediocre program in a weak conference isn't going to fare any better at NU than TCU. 

Wandale has shown he is a P5 football player- JD has not. Not since his season end meltdown. 
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You're actually claiming that a guy who is 3rd in career Yds/Catches, has 3 of the top ten receiving seasons in Nebraska history in the 3 years he played here is "inherently flawed and unproductive?" That is an incredible stretch. JD was an excellent receiver, the fact that he's had issues at TCU has no bearing on what he was here.

 
There have definitely been some missteps by the staff - not to harp on them because it happens everywhere - but some unfortunate ones that have hurt in the long run.

That said, even though it didn’t work out how we all hoped, I thought the Luke McCaffrey recruitment was a very unique and awesome idea by the staff. At the time (can’t stress enough that I mean at the time), we had a true freshman, future Heisman candidate at QB. Luke was a 4-star ATH with a 2-star QB offer list but wanted to play QB. Frost basically said, “look it’s going to take you a couple of years of development, you know that, but in a couple years, Adrian will be leaving to the pros. And then you’ll be our guy.” I thought Mario and Frost were going to turn him into a beast QB.

Injuries, the pandemic, and some weird stuff has pretty much guaranteed that Adrian will be here for this year and another year and I can’t blame Luke for realizing he wasn’t going to get the chance he thought he was at QB. If he would have accepted a gadget role, we’d no doubt be utilizing him but he didn’t want that. Can’t blame him but it worked out for both parties.

 
Husker in WI said:
You're actually claiming that a guy who is 3rd in career Yds/Catches, has 3 of the top ten receiving seasons in Nebraska history in the 3 years he played here is "inherently flawed and unproductive?" That is an incredible stretch. JD was an excellent receiver, the fact that he's had issues at TCU has no bearing on what he was here.
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He is flawed today- not was. He has trouble putting in the work and running routes that could involve contact. Now he is a shell of the productive player he was earlier in his career at Nebraska. That last Nebraska season- he just couldn't take it- it ruined him. Today He is a MUCH different player upstairs than the one who caught so many balls at NU. 

 
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Nebraska55fan said:
He is flawed- he has trouble putting in the work and running routes that could involve contact. Now he is a shell of the productive player he was earlier in his career at Nebraska. That last Nebraska season- he just couldnt take it- it ruined him. Today He is a MUCH different player upstairs than the one who caught so many balls at NU. 
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JD and WanDale are similar in that they both were good.  But, they needed a player like Toure or Manning with them to make them really shine.  Problem was, neither had that other that JD his freshman year.

It just doesn't work to have your only threat at WR to be 5'10 with good, but not blazing speed.

 
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Nebraska55fan said:
He is flawed- he has trouble putting in the work and running routes that could involve contact. Now he is a shell of the productive player he was earlier in his career at Nebraska. That last Nebraska season- he just couldnt take it- it ruined him. Today He is a MUCH different player upstairs than the one who caught so many balls at NU. 
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I don't remember the game(s), but the kid got destroyed over the middle play after play several weeks in row one year.  He was clutch.

He was a different dude.  It didn't work here, but he was a baller.

 
BigRedBuster said:
JD and WanDale are similar in that they both were good.  But, they needed a player like Toure or Manning with them to make them really shine.  Problem was, neither had that other that JD his freshman year.
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Sure, I agree with you minus Manning- he hasn't proved he can stay on the field yet. However 2021 JD isn't 2018 JD. Those are two very different players. He would be an unproductive distraction here and then there is the dad etc. 

 
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Nebraska55fan said:
Sure, I agree with you. However 2021 JD isn't 2018 JD. Those are two very different players. He would be an unproductive distraction here and then there is the dad etc. 
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I agree with you in that he wouldn't be a huge help to us this year.  I like what the staff has done with the WR room.  We went through years where we only had JD, then only had WanDale.  Now, we have talent where we have multiple options.  That's way better than either one of those by themselves.

 
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