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It’s early February, but that hasn’t stopped Nebraska from continuing to mine the transfer portal to improve its roster heading into the 2025 season.
Today, the Huskers landed Notre Dame graduate transfer offensive lineman Rocco Spindler. He’s the 16th transfer addition Nebraska has made this cycle and will come to Lincoln with one season of eligibility remaining.
Per reports, Nebraska won the portal recruitment over Indiana, Pittsburgh, Virginia and Michigan, the team he nearly committed to as a high school recruit.
The 6-foot-5, 325-pound Spindler, who was a four-star recruit ranked No. 68 overall in the 2021 class, spent the past four seasons at Notre Dame. The native of Clarkston, Michigan, played in 40 career games with 23 starts for the Fighting Irish, all at right guard, including 13 starts in 2024 when he replaced starter Billy Schrauth, who went down with an injury against Purdue on Sept. 15.
Spindler finished the season at right guard after Schrauth’s early-season injury and started all four of the Irish’s College Football Playoff tilts, including the national championship against Ohio State. Spindler started 10 games at right guard in 2023.
An experienced veteran, Spindler comes to Lincoln with 1,325 snaps under his belt, according to Pro Football Focus. The past two seasons, Spindler has played 1,306 snaps (747 in 2024-25 and 559 in 2023). Spindler comes from good football bloodlines as his father, Marc, played nine years in the NFL as a defensive lineman and played at Pitt.
Nebraska returns two of its three interior offensive line starters from 2024, including right guard Henry Lutovsky and left guard Justin Evans. Ben Scott, the starting center the past two seasons, has departed the program after exhausting his eligibility.
Evans has experience playing center at Nebraska and spent…
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Publish date : 2025-02-03 14:52:00
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