Nebraska football offers Pima CC defensive lineman

Nebraska football has clearly marked the defensive line as being in need of a quick fix.

On Friday afternoon, the Nebraska football team offered Pima Community College defensive lineman Tony Fair. That offer shows that the Husker coaching staff clearly thinks this is a position of immediate need.

Fair had himself quite the impact season as a freshman for Pima, despite the fact that he played in just nine games. In those nine games, he recorded 98 tackles and one sack. He added seven tackles for loss.

If there has been one thing the Cornhusker defense has been missing in the last few years, it’s been a run stopping man in the middle of the defensive front. Fair appears to fit that bill to a “T.”

Standing at 6-3 and weighing in at 330 pounds, the tackle hasn’t gotten a ton of attention just yet but that could be changing soon. The Huskers are just the third offer for Fair, who has also drawn attention from UAB and another Big Ten team in Indiana.

While the Blazers were in on Fair early, Indiana offered on April 30. That seems to indicate that other FBS schools are going to be jumping on the big man’s bandwagon in short order.

The offers from three FBS schools already shows that Fair is making strides as a player. He had committed to play for tiny Indiana State out of high school.

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Hailing from South Bend, Indiana, the Hoosiers might be a tougher team to beat than Nebraska football fans would first think. This is a kid that was already slated to go play for an in-state school before he decided to head to Arizona to play for Pima CC. We’ll just have to wait and see if an offer from the bigger school in the state is enough to get him to stay closer to home.