Recruit Breakdown: Offense

In the last few games of the 2007 Husker football season, Nebraska saw an explosion of offensive numbers that is unlike anything we’ve dealt with before. The question for Bo Pelini is how to bolster a good thing with the right pieces to make it better? Technically, a system isn’t even in place for the players to be working in. If you can surround your greatest tools with high-caliber athletes, then the system is just a minor detail.

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Receivers
Antonio Bell 6′2″, 180, Daytona Beach, FL - He seems to stay on routes and still somehow get open. Bell didn’t seem to break tackles in footage and analysis I saw and I couldn’t find YAC numbers. Some of that may come with training. Receiving, he had 776 yards and 9 TDs his senior year.
Khiry Cooper 6′2″, 180, Shreveport, LA - Accounting for 42 TDs and 1700 yards in three seasons for his high school is pretty impressive. If he can bulk up, Cooper could provide similar mismatch problems as a guy like Dwayne Bowe of the Chiefs or Purify did for the Huskers last year.
Tim Marlowe 5′10″, 160, Youngstown, OH - Is he a Corey Ross or Grixby type of returner? He’s a great athlete, having played WR, QB, and on defense for Cardinal Mooney High School.
Steven Osborne 6′4″, 185, Garland, TX - He has great hands, evades tackles, is hard to bring down, and blocks well. You’d think I was talking about an RB. Instead he caught 10 TDs with 601 yards his senior year.
Backs
Collins Okafor 6′1″, 195, Omaha, NE - Okafor runs hard every play with heads up vision. He has great upper body strength, holding onto the ball well. He stiff arms one guy and is already looking for who to hit next. He had 1850 yards rushing and 16 TDs and caught 6 more with 289 receiving.
Kyler Reed 6′3″, 220, Shawnee, KS - Nebraska stole him from the other 5 Big 12 North Schools. Good thing his dad grew up in Omaha. During the KS playoffs, he was talked about on the radio as a major contributing force of St. Thomas Aquinas success.
Kody Spano 6′2″, 205, Stephenville, TX - A serious dual threat quarterback, he can move the pocket and still his his receivers in stride. Spano accounted for 6050 passing and rushing yards in two seasons, as well as 75 passing and rushing TDs during that time span!!! Thats over 250 yards and 3 TDs a game that he accounts for in his junior and senior years.
Lester Ward 6′3″, 215, Brenham, TX - A tall, fast track guy, I’m surprised he’s not a WR. Then I hear he rushed for 1200 yards, and I can forgive the coaching staff for getting him as a rusher.
Linemen
Ben Cotton 6′6″, 230, Ames, IA - Cotton is fast and slippery, and like any good TE, he’s a starter on the hardwood as well. His 639 yard and 4 TDs aren’t the best of stats, but he has the size and speed while the rest can be learned.
David Grant 6′6″, 295, Killeen, TX - He’s only been playing football 2 years, but already looks like a guys who’s been at it for much more of his life. The guys already knows when to pull or push in run/pass situations. Can’t wait to see what he does pulling in a well-run screen.
Ricky Henry 6′4″, 305, Omaha, NE - It’s good to see former wrestlers on the O-line, they really know how to push people around. He’s the type of physical player that Nebraska has been lacking.
Tyson Hetzer 6′6″, 245, Redding, CA - I’m just glad this guy isn’t going to K-State. He is big and fast for his size, they type of tight end you don’t have to switch out when you need run blocking support.
Baker Steinkuhler 6′6″, 290, Lincoln, NE - He has it in his blood. His brother Ty is already a Husker, and his dad is (in)famous. Steinkuhler was the best player available in Nebraska this year. He will be developed, but he’s good enough to see the field in 2008.
Brandon Thompson 6′6″, 295, The Woodlands, TX - Ready to be built up and molded to what Pelini needs, OK State, A&M, Tech, and Colorado all courted him to their schools.

Sources:
The Lincoln Journal Star
Huskers.com
Rivals.com
Random Google Searches