This isn’t best player or most important. As a list based on intrigue, it skews a bit toward youth and new players, but there will be plenty of established contributors, too.
No. 27. Ethan Piper, OG, rfr.
Some people surely have forgotten this fact about Piper. But others remember.
As Nebraska football fans monitor Piper's development, they perhaps keep in the back of their minds that Iowa recruited him hard.
In the spring of 2018, he was set to take an unofficial visit to Iowa City, but then Nebraska offered him a scholarship and he canceled his trip.