After spending last season developing a true freshman quarterback in a league filled with veterans, Matt Rhule now sees a budding youth movement at the position.

For the third time in its last four games, the Nebraska football team is set to face a freshman QB in Big Ten play.

“You see a lot of teams moving away from the ‘Hey, let’s bring in a one-year guy,’ and starting to say, ‘Hey, let’s go get a great freshman,’” Rhule said. “… I thought all the players we’ve played against have done a great job.”

Unlike Michigan’s Bryce Underwood and Maryland’s Malik Washington, who are both true freshmen, Minnesota’s Drake Lindsey is a redshirt freshman who developed last fall before taking over the starting role this year.

As Rhule does with all freshman quarterbacks, he rewound the clock to wat

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