Nebraska Cornhuskers news: Top QB target to visit, volleyball day, and more

Nebraska football will host top QB target Alex Manske for an unofficial visit in September, plus volleyball day and more Nebraska Cornhuskers news.

Things are starting to pick up as far as Nebraska football and the 2025 recruiting class are concerned. The Huskers landed their third commitment, via in-state running back Conor Booth over the weekend, and now, their top QB target will be back on campus in September.

Alex Manske, a three-star quarterback out of the state of Iowa, has turned into the top target at the position for the Huskers since Stone Saunders chose Kentucky this summer.

Manske visited Nebraska football for one of its camps and impressed the staff. He’s returned multiple times since then for visits and this visit on Sept. 16 — the same day as Brandon Baker — will be his fourth.

The Nebraska Cornhuskers are currently viewed as the leader for Manske via the On3.com prediction machine. The 6-foot-4, 205-pound quarterback has also visited Iowa (once) and Kansas State (twice) in 2023. So it feels like a regional recruitment and Nebraska football also feels like the leader right now.

Volleyball day will be historic for Nebraska Cornhuskers

For the first time ever, we’ll get to see a volleyball match inside Lincoln Memorial Stadium and it’s going to be quite the spectacle. Nebraska will take on Omaha at 7 PM CST on the Big Ten Network, following an exhibition between Wayne State and Nebraska-Kearney.

There are expected to be over 90,000 fans in attendance. We got a glimpse of the court on Tuesday night as the players took part in their practice in the stadium, and it looked unbelievable.

Today we make history. pic.twitter.com/ouZkUWfpi3

— Nebraska Volleyball (@HuskerVB) August 30, 2023

The Nebraska Cornhuskers are also looking to set some attendance records for women’s sports and it seems like they have a pretty good chance of making that happen. Here’s the records they are gunning for via Husker Online:

• NCAA volleyball regular-season record: 16,833 – Wisconsin vs. Florida 2022
• NCAA volleyball record: 18,755 – Nebraska vs. Wisconsin 2021 National title
• American women’s attendance record: 90,185 – USA vs. China FIFA World Cup final in 1999
• World attendance record: 91,648 – Barcelona vs. Wolfsburg UEFA Champion League match in 2022

After dominating three opponents last weekend on their way to three consecutive sweeps, Omaha shouldn’t give the Huskers any problems on the court. But this day is about much more than the final result.

It’s about celebrating Nebraska volleyball and it’s going to be a memorable day.

15 Nebraska football players survive NFL cutdown day

Tuesday was the day when NFL teams needed to get their rosters down to 53 for the start of the 2023 season. A number of former Nebraska Cornhuskers were waived by their teams, including Garrett Nelson and Travis Vokolek, however, 15 former Nebraska football players made NFL rosters.

Best I can tell, 15 former Huskers survived NFL cut day and made the active roster.

That includes 2023 NFL Draft picks Trey Palmer and Ochaun Mathis. #GBR #Huskers pic.twitter.com/qXXWsIaQJp

— Bill Schammert (@BillSchammert) August 30, 2023

Ochaun Mathis and Trey Palmer were two of them. They were the only Huskers selected in the 2023 NFL draft. Palmer has taken the Tampa Bay Bucs by storm. I personally haven’t seen much about Mathis, but the pass rusher earned his way onto the Rams’ 53-man roster, so congrats to both of those rookies.

Certainly, some of the players waived will be picked up in the coming days. Or guys like Nelson and Vokolek could find themselves on an NFL practice squad, which is the next best thing to making the 53-man roster.

Philly is the only team with two former Cornhuskers as Cam Jurgens and Jack Stoll made the final roster once again of the defending NFC champs.

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