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08/14/21 - DT Pheldarius Payne, rSr/2024, Virginia Tech

Pheldarius Payne doesn't always do things exactly the way his outside linebackers coach teaches. Payne, a 6-foot-3, 260-pounder who arrived to Nebraska last summer as a junior college defensive lineman, listens to his position coach Mike Dawson and takes coaching and all of that, but sometimes when the ball gets snapped, instinct takes over. "He's a slippery guy," Dawson said last week. "A guy that can make plays. He can contort and twist his body. Sometimes I see him kind of do a pass-rush move and it's nothing that you've seen or coached before and you're like, 'Yeah, that's not something we've worked on, but heck, it worked, so keep doing it, buddy." "He can get to the quarterback and find a way." By the end of the 2020 season, the Blackshirts had turned themselves into a group that was consistently stingy against the run and one that could get off the field on third down like one of the Big Ten's best units. The two things NU never really got dialed up: Turnover creation and pressure on the quarterback.

Naturally, those two areas represent some of the biggest opportunities for growth this year. "You always need more pressure on the quarterback," defensive coordinator Erik Chinander said Monday before a reporter could even finish the question. Nebraska showed some signs in 2020, but opposing quarterbacks too often had too much time to throw and felt too comfortable against the Huskers. NU averaged 1.63 sacks per game, which tied for 10th in the Big Ten. Sack rate, of course, is not the lone measure for quarterback pressure, but over a long period of time, if you're pressuring the quarterback consistently, you're probably accumulating sacks, too. - Lincoln Journal Star

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