Breaking news:Dylan Raiola makes outrageous statement and it causing serious issues

Many of college football’s top recruits elect each year to enroll early at their destination programs, giving them a full offseason of development with college coaches and trainers. Perhaps the greatest advantage is the opportunity to participate in spring camp, where true freshmen receive 15 practices to learn their system and compete for roles far ahead of their debut campaign. Two five-star recruits in Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola and Colorado offensive lineman Jordan Seaton displayed in their respective spring games last weekend why early enrollment is so beneficial.

Raiola is Nebraska’s projected starting quarterback and fills a great need for the Huskers, injecting blue-chip talent into a room that threw more interceptions than touchdowns during an abysmal 2023 season. His outstanding spring game performance — 16-of-22 passing for 239 yards, one touchdown and an interception — could be a sign of much-improved play to come in Nebraska’s offense.

Antonio Branch Jr. realized quickly how seriously Husker fans take their football and recruiting. That comes at you fast when a fan mentions someone you played ball with in … middle school.

Really? Really.

“What stood out to me the most is I would say is everyone around the community was so wholesome,” Branch said. “Like, everybody knew that I was coming out there. They knew my name. One guy even told me that he know that I played 8th grade with Larry Tarver

Momentum is everything coming out of spring practice and there’s a couple of programs nationally who have more optimism than others ahead of the 2024 season. This also marks the time of the offseason where positive overreactions surface often and differentiating between what’s authentic and simply not going to happen is a challenge.

This time last year, very few were highlighting Kalen DeBoer‘s Washington program as a College Football Playoff threat, much less a team that would run roughshod through the Pac-12 with a Heisman finalist at quarterback. Dark horses are difficult to pinpoint, by definition, but there’s a team in the Big Ten with an enhanced roster and potential superstar under center that made waves this spring.