Friday Night Lights, 6.14

Nebraska football players Bryce Benhart (left) and Ethan Piper watch the action last summer during a Friday Night Lights camp at Memorial Stadium. 

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As the scheduled Aug. 7 start to Nebraska's preseason camp approaches, Husker Extra is counting down the 30 most intriguing players on the roster.

This isn’t best player or most important. As a list based on intrigue, it skews a bit toward youth and new players, but there will be plenty of established contributors, too.

No. 9, Bryce Benhart, RT, rfr. 

If it's not clear already, Nebraska's redshirt freshman class is pretty darn intriguing. 

It's possible that none will be asked to step into a bigger role right off the bat in 2020 than the biggest member of the class himself, Bryce Benhart. 

The 6-foot-9, 310-pound offensive lineman is the odds-on favorite to start the season at right tackle for Nebraska. In fact, head coach Scott Frost confirmed that NU is working multi-year starter Matt Farniok primarily at right guard to have a veteran presence next to a potential first-year starter in Benhart. 

The Lakeville, Minnesota, native was a talented high school wrestler and then got his feet wet as a freshman by playing in three games and traveling to all five road games. He played against Northern Illinois, Maryland and Wisconsin. 

A former four-star recruit, Benhart could ultimately end up not being quite ready for a full-time starting job, but given the bizarre nature of the offseason, it's unlikely offensive line coach Greg Austin and Frost would put him out there in a sink-or-swim setup if they didn't think he was going to swim sooner rather than later. 

Benhart is just one piece of an intriguing young offensive line group that includes presumptive No. 2 left tackle Brant Banks, center Cameron Jurgens, guard Ethan Piper, freshman Turner Corcoran and several others. 

— Parker Gabriel

The list

No. 30: Caleb Tannor, OLB, jr.

No. 29: Brenden Jaimes, LT, sr. 

No. 28: Marvin Scott and Sevion Morrison, RB, fr.

No. 27, Ethan Piper, OG, rfr.

No. 26, Marcus Fleming, WR, fr.

No. 25, Mosai Newsom, DL, rfr.

No. 24, Braxton Clark, CB, so.

No. 23, Jordon Riley, DL, jr.

No. 22, Zavier Betts, WR, fr.

No. 21, Keem Green, DL, jr.

No. 20, Javin Wright, DB, rfr. 

No. 19, Blaise Gunnerson, OLB, fr. 

No. 18, Rahmir Johnson, RB, rfr. 

No. 17, Keyshawn Greene, ILB, fr.

No. 16, Niko Cooper, OLB, so.

No. 15, Cam Taylor-Britt, DB, jr.

No. 14, Deontai Williams, DB, sr.

No. 13, Chris Hickman, TE/WR, rfr.

No. 12, Luke Reimer, ILB, so.

No. 11, Alante Brown, WR, fr.

No. 10, Myles Farmer, S, rfr. 

Contact the writer at or 402-473-7439. On Twitter @HuskerExtraPG.

This article originally ran on journalstar.com.

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