Nebraska football makes early contact with safety transfer to Louisville

The Nebraska football team's defense was among the best in the country since Tony White took over the unit. That doesn't mean he wouldn't like to do it the better as the years go by.

With that in mind, the Huskers appear to be among the teams showing the most interest in one of the best transfer safeties on the market. Former Baylor and now former Louisville DB Devin Neal gave the portal a bit of a head start by joining at the start of this season.

Neal recently told On3 that the Nebraska football team was among the teams that first contacted him. It's possible that NU head coach Matt Rhule and Neal's ties to Baylor could be a deciding factor in trying to bring the defensive lineman to Lincoln.

Neal and Rhule weren't in Waco at the same time, but when Neal recently talked about “relationships” being the biggest key to his transfer's success, he may still have been referring to Rhule.

While Neal's career at Baylor began in 2020 and Rhule left after the 2019 season, it's likely the coach recruited the defensive back to the Bears. It's possible that such a great relationship has been formed that it can continue even if things get heated during recruitment.

Earlier this month, Louisville announced that Neal had left the program. Two days after the announcement, the former Baylor transfer officially entered the transfer portal. He says he didn't plan on leaving the program but wanted to redshirt. It seems the Cardinals saw things differently.

Now he's essentially a free agent and has been in contact with Illinois, Nebraska and Duke in recent weeks. It might be even more beneficial for the head coach of the Nebraska football team that Baylor was the only school to recruit Devin Neal out of high school. We'll see how this plays out down the road for the graduate, who has 150 tackles and 6 interceptions in five seasons.