Where I Come From: All-Time Favorite Husker Players

But some other players I really liked were guys like Jason Peter, Mike Brown, Steve DamKroeger, Jarvis Redwine, Terry Rodgers (a REALLY nice guy), and Reggie Cooper.

I also really liked Zac Taylor. A tough kid who led a couple of pretty mediocre Nebraska teams to some nice wins. As much as Nebraska fans would like to forget the Callahan years, I hope we can always appreciate the efforts of players like Zac.

Enough said.

Every Saturday in the fall of ’63 & ’64. We would get up at first light, get dressed and hustle down the city park where local farmers would come to town and pick us up in a pickup or some big farm truck.

You never knew what the job would be, busting hay bales, shocking cane, cleaning pig barns, but you knew you would get 25 cents and hour and big farm meal cooked up by the farmer’s wife. You also knew there would be radio while you worked, tuned to the Husker game.

My most fond memories where when Larry Wachholtz returned punts. He always went North, never East or West. It was always so exciting, we always stopped to listen, hanging on Lyle Bremser’s every word.

Later in high school when I was playing in the defensive line, our punt returner was injured and the coach asked at halftime who would be willing to return a punt. I volunteered. Later in the game, when we finally held the other team, I stood back there and visualized I was Larry Wachholtz and told myself two things, first catch the ball and then run straight upfield as fast as you can. 65 yards, touchdown. The only touchdown I ever scored in a football game. My 20 seconds of fame. Every time I think of that play, I think of Larry Wachholtz.

There are to many to say who my all time favorite is but one that I haven’t heard mentioned is Will Shields. I live in Kansas City and have had the pleasure of meeting him several times and he is one of the finest athletes I have ever met. Not only is he a great person but he is even better in the community.

I like everyone’s responses and think points can be made for any of those guys. My vote goes to the player who still gives me chills when thinking about his contributions to the Huskers. CORY SCHLESINGER will always be my favorite player and his two touchdowns came in my favorite win that the Huskers have ever had. I love driving through David City and seeing the painting of our homegrown hero. Go Big Red!

My favorite was Jake Young. Tough player,talented but down to earth. I got to know Jake because I was a Merrill Lynch broker in Lincoln and his dad was one in Midland Tx. so he would come visit our office. One Spring Game he visited with my then young son and posed for pics on the field afterward. Great guy. His untimely death by terrorists was a tragic loss.

As an overweight youth (age 7-11), seeing Grant Wistrom and Jason Peter destroy the enemy was a real gift.

I’ve got a list, I became a Husker fan as a kid in the 1990s. So my list normally involves the scrappiest players of that time, also there are a few of the Callahan era players that I dig too.

Cory Schlesinger, no need to explain, he was a badass such a tough player and I love his pro-career too
Brook Berringer, I love the fact that Brook played with a collapsed lung. He also kept the ship on course while “Touchdown Tommie” was on the mend, lastly he’s a story of unrealized potential, he was a likely 96 draft pick and had the raw talent to have made a decent NFL backup.
Ahman Green, because he freakin rocked
Lawrence Phillips, I know I know, we’re not supposed to like players that beat women, however he was just an amazingly brutal and versatile back, big enough to truck anyone in his way, he was like everything that Reggie Bush was while being everything that Lendel White was all at the same time. Another story of under utilized potential.
Scott Frost, I love a quarterback who hits like a fullback
Grant Wistrom, You just have to love that huge heart
Jason Peter, the definition of a Husker badass!
Mike Rucker, I don’t particularly know why, but I loved him as a kid.
Zac Taylor, great decision maker, a ton of heart!
Brandon Jackson, I like good runningbacks.
Bo and Barrett Ruud, you gotta love those brothers, the Husker defenses they presided over weren’t great but they were bright spots on them
Ndamukong Suh, no explanation needed. He’s a brilliant athlete.
Alex Henerey, he’s such a stud, I was at the 2008 game where he kicked that field goal against Colorado. It was so amazing!
All that said, there are many others that I love and these are just the ones that I like particularly at the moment.

Mike Grant…he was booed by fans, and as a 5th year senior got bumped for freshman Tommie Frazier. He could have whined and disrupted the team, but stayed committed to the Huskers for the rest of the season, and I believe was a grad assistant for the Huskers after graduating. He knew what TEAM was all about, in true Husker fashion.
  Favorites….Dave Rimington(Dr. 50) Dean Steinkuhler (fumblerooskie), I.M Hipp, Jarvis Redwine

1. Suh – no explanation needed

2. Joe Ganz – the anti-me-first quaterback…waited out his time for more glorified guys to wash out, and took advantage when it was his turn.

3. Zac Taylor – stability when the program needed it the most.

4. Cory Ross – little guy, big heart. I remeber watching him take a screen pass 80 some yards against ISU. Just a fun kid to watch.

BARON MILES!! When they finally turned him loose in Miami in 94 and let him play bump and run he proved that at 5 foot nothing he could still play with the best, guy was a flat out stud.

As I go back over 50 yrs, there are so many, but a few: Grant Wistrom, Mike Rozier, Johnny “The Jet” Rogers, Jerry Murtaugh, Jeff Kinney, Jerry Tagge, Larry Jacobson, Ndamakong Suh, Rich Glover, Turner Gill, Will Shields, Dave Rimington, Neil Smith, Irving Fryer, Bobby Hohn, Bobby Reynolds, Mike Knox, Ken Geddes, Ahman Green, Brook Berringer, Eric Crouch, Bobby Newcombe, Terrrel Farley, Mike Brown, John Dutton, I.M. Hipp, to name a few. Even though Tommie Frazier may have been the best QB at NU, he was never one of my favorite and I don’t really know why.

First of all I have lived in TN all my 47yrs, just an hour away from the vols stadium yet I have LOVED the Corn Huskers since 1978. Glad we beat UT in both bowl games we played them. My favorites are as follows: Turner Gill, Tommy Frazier, Ndamakong Suh, Grant Winstrom, and Corey Schlesinger. These are just a few of my many. Go! Big! Red!

I get really tired of hearing everyone heap praises on Fraizer, I knew him, we went to school together at the same time. Brook Berringer was 1000 x the man that Faizer was.

Fraizer was detested by anyone who knew him, his teammates hated him, I once saw a little boy approach fraizer in the Union and ask for his autograph, he told the little boy to F off. (Very classy) I went over and threatened to end his career right there in the union if he did not appologize to the boy, who was now crying. Im a former linebacker 6’5" 310, I could of handled the issue. He wisely chose to appologize and gave the kid his autographed hat.

His big TD run against Florida was not a demonstration of his prowess but piss poor tackling by Flordia.

QB – Turner Gill
RB – Mike Rozier – he could make something out of nothing.
WR – Fryar

DT – Suh
LB – Trev Alberts

P – Alex Henery

There is a Husker who needs to be acknowledged here: Ben Eisenhart. He walked on from a Class D eight-man football team. He end up a a starter in the defensive secondary. Very few of us could have done that.