Baker Steinkuhler giving the NFL another go as an Offensive Lineman

[Blackshirt96]

I thought it was his decision to move to the DL. Something about not wanting to be constantly compared to his dad.

It was. But now that it's over and it seems that that decision didnt pan out as good as what playing OL is percieved, it's all Bo's fault. And Baker is now off the hook.

Hadn't heard that before. But even if that wasn't the case, it made sense at the time. Our offense was pretty good but our defense was terrible. We needed help on the defensive side.

You do know he was the back up for Suh & Crick as a RS Fr? He made that choice to play D when we had one of the best units of all-time.

That would be 2009 - after he had already been on defense for two years. He was class of 2008 meaning we were coming off the atrocious defense of 2007 when the decision was made.

Didn't he practice on both sides of the ball his Fr year & decided to stay on the defensive side after his Fr year? I could be wrong but that is how I remember it going down.

 

[Mavric]

Didn't he practice on both sides of the ball his Fr year & decided to stay on the defensive side after his Fr year? I could be wrong but that is how I remember it going down.

I don't remember for sure. But here's what Huskers.com says:

2008 (Redshirt)

Steinkuhler redshirted in 2008 and worked on defense after being recruited with the possibility of playing on either side of the ball.