While Big Red faithful are no doubt still basking in the news of the midweek commitment of quarterback Cody Green, what do those quarterbacks who are already in the Husker stable think whenever a fresh face is being cast as the potential next big thing?

Husker senior Beau Davis has been around the program long enough to see plenty of quarterbacks come to Lincoln toting a fan base’s giant expectations on their shoulders.

So what’s the reaction in the Nebraska locker room whenever a high-profile recruit commits to NU?

Really, there’s not much of one, Davis said on Friday.

“I don’t think players in general really stay on top of commitments to tell you the truth,” he said. “If you asked someone about a guy who committed, they’d be like, ‘I don’t know.’

“But you got to expect there’s going to be competition. Every year they’re going to bring in the best. They’re going to bring in the high school kid that is all-state, top 10 on Rivals. We’ve seen them here.”

Harrison Beck is perhaps the prime example of a prep quarterback who came to Nebraska with hype busting through the roof. A crowd of more than 20 reporters gathered around him before he had even taken a snap during his first summer in Lincoln. He was just 17 at the time, but questions kept coming at him for 45 minutes.

 After completing 1 of 10 passes in two games that freshman season, Beck transferred to North Carolina State before his sophomore year.

All the fanfare can be tough on a kid. Davis knows. He received his share of it when it was announced he was coming to Nebraska, too.

“And to tell you the truth, it’s hard for guys to meet those expectations,” Davis said. “Being 17, 18 years old and trying to uplift a program, it’s just not reasonable. And I don’t think it should be on the kid’s shoulders to do so. It should be on the seniors and the guys that have been here three years.”

What Green’s high school coaches in Dayton, Texas, will tell you about the 6-foot-4, 220-pound quarterback is that he’s as smart as he is physically gifted.

“He gives us an extra voice on the practice field,” said Green’s offensive coordinator, Jeff Nations. “He can see things sometimes we miss and let us know what needs to be done here.”

Green’s head coach, Jerry Stewart, said the quarterback is certainly smart enough to know that if he signs on at NU, he’ll meet steep competition upon his arrival from guys who have been in the system longer — quarterbacks like Patrick Witt, Zac Lee and Kody Spano.

“And it’s like I told him,” Stewart said, “the next year Nebraska is going to be recruiting another great quarterback. That’s what the good schools do.”

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