Tanner Lee draft choice exposes schism between Nebraska football fans
Of all the knocks against Tanner Lee from Nebraska football fans, this is the one that is both completely understandable, and based in very little fact.
Yes, Lee transferred from Tulane, where he played his first two years of college football. Guess who else was a recent transfer quarterback that Husker fans have no problem embracing? Zac Taylor.
Taylor played for Wake Forest before going to a Junior College and then coming to Nebraska. Now the quarterback coach for the Los Angeles Rams, Cornhusker fans are perfectly fine when someone says he’s “one of ours.”
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Obviously some of the “rental” perception is because Lee only played one season here. The thing is, those people are apparently forgetting he sat out a year once he arrived in Lincoln.
Considering he played quarterback as a true freshman at Tulane, he spent exactly as many years in Lincoln as he did in Louisiana.
Had Scott Frost not installed an offense Tanner wasn’t suited for, he’d have spent more time here than his first school. Despite that, I bet even if he had played his senior year, he’d still be perceived as a rental.
Tanner Lee is not really a Husker though he’s really still a Tulane guy who was rented by Nebraska
— moose64 (@cfbtrackers) April 29, 2018
People are so against the idea that the quarterback was truly a member of the Nebraska football team, that they’re willing to argue against a pretty important draft streak being kept alive thanks to Tanner Lee.