Matt Rhule talks Nebraska football quarterback competition, Jalyn Gramstad

Nebraska football head coach Matt Rhule met with the media on Thursday. He also did a podcast and offered some updates on the quarterback competition.

Rhule didn’t give any insight as to who might be leading. But he was asked by Steven Sipple of Husker Online, on the Husker Headlines Podcast when he wanted to have a starting quarterback named.

“I don’t know that I know that, honestly,” Rhule said to the Husker Online Podcast, “I’ve had outsiders come in and visit us and just watch us, and they’ve said, ‘Your three (scholarship) quarterbacks really like each other.’ I think if you have a bunch of guys who respect each other, the competition continues to bring out the best in everybody.

“That doesn’t mean we’re going to have a competition where we’re not skewing the reps. Somebody is going to go with the ones more than the threes. Somebody’s going to go with the twos more than the threes. That will happen.”

How Jalyn Gramstad fits into the mix for Nebraska

Of course, the QB competition got even more interesting on Thursday night with the commitment of former NAIA Player of the Year Jalyn Gramstad. He impressed the Nebraska football coaching staff when he showed up at their post-graduate camp.

Gramstad played for Northwestern College last season, an NAIA power in Iowa, that played for the national championship. Rhule called him a “winner” and said that was reason enough to add him to the roster.

“Being around winners is infectious,” he said.

Rhule also said if the Huskers needed a fourth quarterback to come in and win the game, Gramstad could be that guy, although there’s no guarantee he’ll be the No. 4 quarterback.

Dylan Raiola, Heinrich Haarberg, and Daniel Kaelin have battled for the job since the spring but Gramstad will get his shot. You don’t leave a national title contender, even at the NAIA level, to sit on the bench.

As far as naming a starter, Rhule didn’t rule out naming one the week of the UTEP game.

“What I don’t want to do is name someone the starter and all of a sudden have second thoughts a couple weeks later,” Rhule said. “It’s like I tell guys in recruiting: Take all your visits. If you commit to us, we want you here for four years, not just four weeks. So, it’s the same thing with this (QB situation). We’ll let them play it out, let them show off all the work they did this summer, and see where we are.”

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