For what it is worth....

We NEED Burkhead back as soon as possible. This stat from Saturday tells it all:

Helu: 138 yards rushing.

Rest of team combined: 3 yards rushing.

The drop off (against teams not named Baylor or Iowa State) after Helu is huge.

 
Doesn't he have a broken bone in his foot? If it's healed, there's no reason for him not to come back. It's a lot different injury than a ligament or tendon tear.

 
Cornhuskers said:
Rex Burkhead is irrelevant as we have Helu. The problem is at QB, Zac Lee needs to be permanently benched.
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I have to disagree. Your QB is only as good as his teamates. You can pitch it all day long, which Lee can do, but if you have no one to catch it and make the play its useless. Same thing for the hand off. He can handoff the ball, but if there is no one to run up the hole, or even create the hole, you won't be successfull. At times, Rex was just as good, if not better than Helu, and he is only a Freshman. Here's to hoping he is 100% by CO.

 
Cornhuskers said:
Rex Burkhead is irrelevant as we have Helu. The problem is at QB, Zac Lee needs to be permanently benched.
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I have to disagree. Your QB is only as good as his teamates. You can pitch it all day long, which Lee can do, but if you have no one to catch it and make the play its useless. Same thing for the hand off. He can handoff the ball, but if there is no one to run up the hole, or even create the hole, you won't be successfull. At times, Rex was just as good, if not better than Helu, and he is only a Freshman. Here's to hoping he is 100% by CO.

 
I agree with carlfense, if he's healthy, let him play. While Robinson has played well, he doesn't add the same spark Burkhead does. I still can't believe none of the other backs have stepped it up yet.

 
junior4949 said:
Doesn't he have a broken bone in his foot? If it's healed, there's no reason for him not to come back. It's a lot different injury than a ligament or tendon tear.
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It's not quite that simple. The bone may heal but he's had to stay off of it so that affects the bone, muscle, and ligament strength. There's an amout of rehab needed to build that foot back up to football shape.

 
irafreak said:
junior4949 said:
Doesn't he have a broken bone in his foot? If it's healed, there's no reason for him not to come back. It's a lot different injury than a ligament or tendon tear.
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It's not quite that simple. The bone may heal but he's had to stay off of it so that affects the bone, muscle, and ligament strength. There's an amount of rehab needed to build that foot back up to football shape.
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Exactly. AND unfortunately there is no guarantee that it heals correctly. Here's hoping.

 
irafreak said:
junior4949 said:
Doesn't he have a broken bone in his foot? If it's healed, there's no reason for him not to come back. It's a lot different injury than a ligament or tendon tear.
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It's not quite that simple. The bone may heal but he's had to stay off of it so that affects the bone, muscle, and ligament strength. There's an amout of rehab needed to build that foot back up to football shape.
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Broken foot is nothing to mess with. Come back too soon and you risk permanent damage.

 
Cornhuskers said:
Rex Burkhead is irrelevant as we have Helu. The problem is at QB, Zac Lee needs to be permanently benched.
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Burkhead proved to be a good backup. If you think our only problem is QB than I suggest you follow the team more closely.

 
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