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There’s something about Mike Riley that makes Nebraska’s second-year head football coach a heroic figure among national media, not to mention a good man who knows a great wide receiver when he sees one.
Meet Jack Johnson, an 8-year-old second-grader who’s all of 4-foot-3 and a whopping 55 pounds at Norfolk Catholic grade school. Riley was so eager to “recruit” Jack, he sent the excited Husker fan with a genetic disorder his own personalized video.
Johnson (pictured above) had no delusions of grandeur.