Matt Rhule shares health update from Nebraska's scrimmage

Nebraska has come out of its spring slate mostly unscathed ahead of Saturday’s spring scrimmage. Heading into game week, head coach Matt Rhule revealed which players suffered recent ailments and might not be available for the offseason showcase.

“We had two guys that got banged up during the [second] scrimmage,” Rhule said. “It looked like [Elijah] Jeudy got hurt early on, then John Goodwin got hurt later on. It didn’t seem major, both of them rolled their ankles. But we came out of it pretty healthy.”

Goodwin is a four-year tight end that has never seen an in-game snap for Nebraska. Jeudy, however, is a former four-star DL recruit, per the On3 Industry Rankings, a proprietary algorithm that compiles ratings and rankings from all four primary recruiting media services. He transferred into the program this offseason after spending two years at Texas A&M.

Jeudy, a Philadelphia native, played in one game for the Aggies while redshirting his true freshman season in 2021. He recorded the first tackle of his career against Prairie View. As a redshirt freshman in 2022, Jeudy appeared in two late-season games against Florida and LSU before hitting the portal.

He was a former top-200 recruit and a top-10 player out of Pennsylvania in 2021. Jeudy compiled 51 tackles and had six sacks as a senior at Northeast (PA) High School, and is hoping to find similar success at Nebraska — if he remains healthy.

Nebraska will likely have to head into its spring game on Saturday without the two, but Rhule is still excited for Cornhuskers fans to see his team live for the first time since taking over the program. Wanting to experience the most competitive spring game possible, the first-team offense will face the first-team defense, the second strings will face off against each other as well.

“They’re gonna have the new running clock rules in the NCAA so I might run the clock, like on first downs not stop the clock to cut the plays,” Rhule continued. “But I want to play a game, what I really want to do is have the teams and be like hey, you’re calling the plays for this team, you’re calling the plays for this team and then have them compete against each other. Like game plan each other, compete against each other.”

With the unique format in place, Nebraksa’s Red-White Spring Game kicks off this Saturday at 1 p.m. CT in Memorial Stadium and will be airing on Big Ten Network.