By Brian Rosenthal / Huskers.com
The pain was so immediate, so intense, that Jordan Westerkamp immediately thought the worst.
Lacerated kidney, perhaps, or something internal.
That was Oct. 1, when the Nebraska senior receiver lay on the turf at Memorial Stadium, quickly motioning for trainers to come to his aid after he’d absorbed a brutal blow from an Illinois defender.
Westerkamp went to the hospital, where scans thankfully revealed no internal injuries. But he did have “little fractures on transverse process on the spine,” Westerkamp said Wednesday, his first interviews since his injury.