In competitive backfield, slimmer Ozigbo confident in summer progress

Nebraska running back Devine Ozigbo looks for running room during the first half in 2017 at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.Devine Ozigbo has considered what his parents might think the next time he shows up at the front door.

The Nebraska senior running back and his teammates have a couple of weeks left of summer conditioning and then a brief respite before August arrives and fall camp begins. If Ozigbo makes it back to Texas in that time, Yayie and Dave just might find that their son doesn’t quite darken the doorway like he used to.

“I’m guessing I’m going to see my parents and they’re going to say, ‘Did you lose weight?!” said with a laugh earlier this week.

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