Who's going to win the Nebraska Spring League?

Team Bugeaters. Team Old Gold Knights. Team Rattlesnake Boys. Let's break down what the Huskers are up to this spring.

Nebraska football players during drills at spring football practices. (Photo by Erin Sorensen)

Team Bugeaters. Team Old Gold Knights. Team Rattlesnake Boys.

We had limited information about the new teams (within the team) when we talked about them earlier this week. We knew the three quarterbacks — Heinrich Haarberg, Dylan Raiola and Daniel Kaelin — were each a captain of one of the teams. We also knew that injured players would act as “general managers” in some format. 

Since then, we’ve learned a little more about the setup and how it all works. That includes the rosters, with Raiola leading the Bugeaters, Kaelin leading the Old Gold Knights and Haarberg leading the Rattlesnake Boys. Each team also has an acting general manager, assistant general manager, director of personnel and director of scouting.

Rhule wants competition this spring. Creating and implementing the teams plays to that. When spoke with him to kick off spring ball, he said the teams played to how competitive players get in other things like Madden.

The coordinators and assistant coaches have since offered additional context to what Nebraska is doing with the teams.