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04/23/21 - DT Pheldarius Payne, rSr/2024, Virginia Tech

The 2020 football season didn't proceed normally for anybody, but when Nebraska defensive coordinator Erik Chinander fielded a question last week about players who might have particularly needed this spring, his mind went first to Pheldarius Payne. The junior college transfer built a good reputation as a pass-rusher at that level, verbally committed to North Carolina State and played with Lackawanna (Pennsylvania) Community College all the way to the juco national title game on Dec. 5, 2019. He flipped his commitment to Nebraska and signed his national letter of intent two weeks later, but wasn't set to arrive on campus until May 2020. Midway through that period, of course, the coronavirus pandemic arrived in the United States and threw pretty much everything off-kilter. Payne did arrive at NU on schedule, but he dealt with more than just the pandemic.

"At first when I came in, I had shoulder surgery, so as soon as I came in, I rehabbed for about two months," he told reporters Monday. "And I had to hurry up and lift weights and bench (press) and I was benching, I don't think 135 (pounds). I was benching like 25 on each side." The original plan was for Payne to play on the defensive line for Tony Tuioti. Listed at 6-foot-3 and 270 pounds, he was built a little bit more like, say, Deontre Thomas than some of the behemoths in the room such as Ty Robinson, Jordon Riley, Damion Daniels and other 300-plus pounders. Tuioti thought Payne could provide some pass-rush punch with a quick get-off and different repertoire of moves. "Then I got COVID and I had to sit out and I lost weight," Payne said. - Lincoln Journal Star

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