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Run of high-end local high school talent brings opportunity (and competition) for Huskers

“I have noooo idea,” the 6-foot-8, 280-pound sophomore said this week of the seemingly random outreach. “I guess because I wasn’t short my freshman year and I still kind of stuck out to people. I guess that’s probably what it was, but I have no idea. I didn’t reach out to them or anything.”

Perhaps the Seminoles knew something that others didn’t — though FSU is not currently one of the schools consistently after Prochazka — or perhaps it was just one of those coincidences that ends up a small footnote — but in the year-plus since the smallest of first tastes of recruitment, Prochazka has become one of two Nebraskans in the 2021 class to already draw attention from across the country.