There's another McCaffrey, and he has committed to Nebraska
Channel: fly away
Date: 2018-06-05

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/theres-another-mccaffrey-and-he-has-committed-to-nebraska/
Nebraska has a signal-caller for its 2019 class, and he comes from a family of football royalty.

Luke McCaffrey (Littleton, Colo.) verbally committed to the Huskers on Monday afternoon, giving Scott Frost and Mario Verduzco an athletic option to add to the quarterbacks room next year.

McCaffrey, of course, is the son of Denver Broncos great Ed McCaffrey and the younger brother of Carolina Panthers running back Christian, San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Max and University of Michigan quarterback Dylan.

And while Luke has football in his DNA — his mom Lisa is now slouch either, having played soccer at Stanford — he to this point has not had his chance as a full-time starter at Valor Christian High.

Until last fall, Dylan started for the state powerhouse. In 2017, Luke split time with Blake Stenstrom, who now is a freshman at the University of Colorado. In partial time, McCaffrey threw for 878 yards on more than 76 percent completions and threw six touchdowns against three interceptions.

Now, though, the 6-foot-3, 185-pounder is expected to get his first shot at full time duty as a senior starter under his dad, who's the new head coach at the Highlands Ranch school.

The lack of regular playing time to date did not dissuade the Huskers, who believe stringently in Verduzco and Frost's ability to evaluate young quarterbacks.

“Does he demonstrate that he can throw the ball on the move? Is all of his yardage nothing but bubbles and screen passes, that sort of thing?” Verduzco told the Journal Star last month. “Sometimes what you get on tape is not necessarily what you see in person, but if you know what you’re looking for and you can see the different angles on his Hudl tape, you can get a good feel of what his stroke may look like."

Clearly, Verduzco liked what he saw with McCaffrey. Not only did he complete a high percentage of his passes and average more than 12 yards per attempt as a junior, but he also rushed 80 times for 548 yards and nine touchdowns in addition to 19 catches for 147 yards and another score. 

As a sophomore, he caught 47 passes for 717 and nine touchdowns. That made McCaffrey a coveted player even though he has a relative lack of experience. 247Sports' Composite rankings peg him as a four-star prospect, the No. 262 player overall in the nation and the No. 17 athlete. Per Rivals, McCaffrey is a three-star prospect and the No. 2 player in the state of Colorado. 

As soon as the Huskers started showing interest this spring, McCaffrey reciprocated in a big way.

Nebraska extended a scholarship offer on March 27. McCaffrey and his father made it to NU's junior day just four days later, an early sign that Verduzco was on to something.

On Monday, Verduzco tweeted, "Cornhusker Nation, we got our guy. The future just happened... Again!!!" 

The youngest McCaffrey has no shortage of interest — he holds offers from Michigan, Duke, Colorado, North Carolina and many others — but he decided that the chance to play for Frost and Verduzco was too much to pass up.

So now the Huskers are likely done at quarterback for 2019. There's always a chance they could add another, but Frost has made clear he understands as a former signal-caller himself that most quarterbacks don't like to be part of two-member classes. Not only that, but NU's scholarship numbers are rounding into form. Assuming no attrition, Nebraska would enter 2019 with redshirt sophomores in Tristan Gebbia and Noah Vedral, sophomore Adrian Martinez, junior walk-on Andrew Bunch and the incoming McCaffrey.

Given the way Verduzo talked about Bunch this spring and the fact that all of the above mentioned players would still be underclassmen in 2019, those are numbers NU would seem to be comfortable with.

After seeing around a dozen offered quarterback prospects this spring, Verduzco insisted that he had been impressed with each and that he would be happy to have any of them on board.
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