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Riley is going toe-to-toe with top programs and actually winning some recruiting battles. We really haven't seen that on a consistent basis since Osborne.
Hours after he committed to Nebraska on Saturday night over an offer list that included a who's who of college football suitors, Top247 cornerback Brendan Radley-Hiles told 247Sports, "I was born to be a Blackshirt."
If it weren't for Mike Riley and the third-year staff in Lincoln, the nation's No. 5 cornerback may not have ever figured out his apparent destiny.
Nebraska continues to trend towards being the class of the Big Ten West. The quarterback position is set for years to come with Tanner Lee and former 247Sports Top100 recruit Patrick O'Brien battling for the starting job and early enrollee freshman four-star Tristan Gebbia also showing a lot of promise this spring.
The secondary could be a strength as it reloads, with nobody having more upside nationally in the 2017 class than Huskers signee Elijah Blades (247Sports' No. 3-ranked cornerback). Team him up with Radley-Hiles and 2015 class jewel Lamar Jackson (the cornerback, not the Heisman winner) and it's a secondary that has the size, length and speed to go toe to toe with anybody's playmakers.
The backfield is stable and the receiver group is loading up on playmakers like JD Spielman, Tyjon Lindsey (America's top slot receiver recruit in 2017), along with Allen and the very explosive Eric Fuller in this class.
Riley is going toe-to-toe with top programs and actually winning some recruiting battles. We really haven't seen that on a consistent basis since Osborne.