Perhaps the most underrated offseason announcement of all for Husker football a few months back involved the local linebacker.
Even John Bullock’s brother, Alex, wasn’t too sure he was coming back. Honestly, he was kind of thinking it was a no from big bro.
“I just said, ‘Follow what your heart says,'” Alex Bullock recalled last week of John’s decision. “I didn’t even know he was doing it until I saw on social media that he posted it. He never told me. I think he was leaning towards leaving but he decided he had unfinished business here and wanted to come back.”
There’s good reason Nebraska fans were fired up about the returns of Ben Scott and Bryce Benhart, and certainly Nash Hutmacher and Ty Robinson.
But considering Luke Reimer and Nick Henrich are no longer in the program, the return of John Bullock a season after he jumped from walk-on safety to a linebacker who took on 413 snaps (sixth most of any returning Husker defender) last year is a pretty big deal in the middle of Tony White’s defense.
The Omaha Creighton Prep grad had a career-high 50 tackles, starting 10 times. He had 2 1/2 tackles for loss, 1 1/2 sacks, a couple pass breakups and a forced fumble.
Teammates voted him to be a single-digit player. And no one was more an example of Rhule’s staff success last year with moving a player positions than Bullock, who this coaching staff believed in just a few practices into last spring.
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