Isaiah Mozee

Uh, 5%.

5% goes to, as I put in my, uh, my notes here, uh, Makai Nelson and Isaiah Mozee.

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Apparently can't spell Nelson.

Uh, 5% goes to the running backs there.

They didn't have a great day, but I thought it was the best game we've seen from Isaiah Mozee.

And for as limited as Makai Nelson was, it was pretty critical he had that quick 19-yard touchdown run.

You don't, you remove all doubt, you score right there.

Makai Nelson, great explosive runner, a little bit on the light side, and sometimes that catches up to him.

Isaiah Mozee is a good running back.

If you want my opinion, okay, and if you're listening to the show you probably do, he's one year away from being really good.

He needs another year of running back development.

Like, if, g- knock on wood, I'm knocking on all the wood we have here.

Like, if Makai Nelson, and Isaiah Mozee, and, and, a- a- and Vince Genitone, like, if all of those other guys get hurt, then it's like, okay, Jamal, we can put Jamal out there.

But this is, I, I think it's a situation where it's like, hey, like, break glass in case of emergency.

That's how I view doubtful.

So I don't, I don't wanna, like, hyperventilate over all of this sort of stuff, like becoming on an injury report and people freaking out about all that stuff, but I think the bigger question to me is, is if this was the Indiana week, how much more important is it that those guys, if they're on the injury report and what their expected role would be comparative to what we are actually going to see on this Saturday, because it is Maryland.

And I think that a big part of this is exactly what we've talked about with a lot of the guys so far this week, is Maryland is still talented.

They're not going to completely roll over, we don't think, but there is a version of this game where Nebraska does need to put them away early, so that way you don't have them using their talent in suspicious ways, and you don't feel like, "Hey, why does Maryland still, like, just traipsing around this game for?" And I think that that is a, a, a big thing for Nebraska, just in those first 15 minutes of the game, right? And a lot of these guys, especially Makai Nelson, if he's not 100% ready to go, if Isaiah Mozee's able to just, you know, get that head start moving for Nebraska at the running back spot, fantastic, but personally I would, I would feel more confident if it was Makai Nelson, because that's who we've seen so far through the first four games.

Yeah, 100%, and I'm, I'm probably the state's leading Isaiah Mozee fan, so, like, even as in that role, um, yeah, I, I would feel more comfortable if you had both of them.

So I think that's kinda what he's talking about, but he's also talking about wanna run the ball.

So if Jamal Rule's doubtful for this game, Isaiah Mozee, he actually graded out the best of all the running backs against Michigan State.

Uh, Mekhi Nelson, he's got that extra burst, runs with violence.

If I'm being honest with you, with Jamal, even when he's back, whenever he does play, his ceiling, there is no ceiling.

Makai Nelson, 70.4, played 23 snaps, the most of any running backs.

Isaiah Mozee, 69.3, played 19 snaps.

Jamal Rule felt a little bit tight, okay, in the second half, so he didn't get any carries second half.

That's all right.

Isaiah Mozee got a little bit more time on the field, scored his first touchdown, averaged almost 70 yards per carry.

Jamal Rule, though, 13 snaps, highest grade, 74 over- aw, actually, the, that was the highest grade of any freshman running back in the country.

Quentin Ives, all right, uh, let's see, 10 snaps, 63.5.