If you want to know what seven straight losing seasons does to a program, look no farther than the Nebraska football program. As the smoke cleared from the three long days that make up the 2024 NFL Draft, a single Husker got drafted. Not one.
The only thing worse than realizing that fact, is just how rare that is. Even in the lean years that has been the post-Bo Pelini era, the Cornhuskers could usually expect at least one or two players to get drafted late.
In 2023, those players were guys like Trey Palmer and Ochaun Mathis. They went late, but they were eventually drafted. We can’t say the same for this version of the Nebraska footbal team.
This was only the second time since 1962 that the Huskers missed out on anyone being selected in the NFL Draft. Of course, if you really want a statement on how bad things have been over the last few years, keep in mind its the second time in the last five years this has happened. 2019 was the streak breaker. 2024 is simply an underlining of what the Nebraska football program is these days. What it’s striving to put in the rear view mirror.
Nebraska football has historically bad day in 2024 NFL Draft
Just how bad is it to not have a single player get drafted? There was a grand total of 11 power conference schools that can say that. Baylor, Colorado, Oklahoma State, Northwestern, Arizona State, Syracuse, Indiana, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech joined the Nebraska football program.
On the other hand, the schools that got at least one player drafted when the Cornhuskers include Findlay, Northern Iowa, Southeast Missouri State, UTEP, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Texas A&M Commerce, Eastern Kentucky and Holy Cross.
The Nebraska football team has found a new level of futility.