#63 Andrew Rodriguez
Jr • OL • 6-6 • 325 lbs
| Hometown: | Aurora, Neb. |
| Previous School: | Aurora |
Scouting the Spring Game "Draft"
The spring game seldom has any stakes that should be meaningful to fans. Whether the red team or white team wins is of little consequence. Still, it's fun to see how or whether one team gets an advantage or not based on how the roster gets split up. So consider …
Strongest Offensive Line in Years?
The 2000 offensive line was one to remember. The interior featured Dominic Raiola, Toniu Fonoti, and Russ Hochstein. Raiola and Hochstein had All-American seasons and Fonoti was a All-Big 12 (attaining All-American status a year later). Since then, there have been a few standouts, but mostly an unspectacular group. For …
The Factory
Glancing through the Husker's roster of offensive linemen, a pattern begins to emerge involving redshirt players and walk ons. Before Tyler Moore decided to leave the program, he was only one of two players who did not redshirt in their first year of the program. The other, Andrew Rodriguez, will …
Phil Steele's Preseason All Conference Picks
As far as preseason selection go, guessing which players will garner the top honors by the end of the year may be the toughest picks. Phil Steele is known for his methodical predictions and meticulous statistics of teams and their final standings. Selecting preseason all conference teams can only be …
Regaining Lineman Credentials
<font size="2">There was a time when Nebraska's ability to produce great linemen seemed unparalleled. In only six of Tom Osborne's 25 seasons as head coach at NU did the Huskers fail to produce an All-American on the offensive line. He produced at least one first team all-conference offensive lineman every …
Handicapping the Spring Game
<font size="2">The Nebraska Athletic Department has released the rosters for the Spring game. <font size="2">Based on what we see, which team has the edge?</font></font>
Line Play Biggest Question Mark Offensively
<font size="2">Nebraska returns a lot at of experience at the skill positions offensively. There are returning starters in the offensive backfield with Taylor Martinez and Rex Burkhead. The top two receiving options at tight end are back in Kyler Reed and Ben Cotton. Young but veteran receivers return in Kenny …
Players Added on Signing Day Shouldn't Be Overshadowed by Those That Weren't
Former Nebraska head coach Bill Callahan was quoted after the decommitment of Josh Freeman (who instead went to Kansas State), "It’s been my experience that guys you have to continue to work on, and have a high-maintenance (manner) about themselves — a lot of those guys struggle throughout their careers. …
Preparing for South Carolina
Tim Beck spoken openly with the media this week on various topics, including bowl opponent South Carolina. While the game planning for South Carolina will not start officially until Friday, the coaches are doing their homework. The offensive coordinator seems to think the Gamecocks will be the best athletic and …
Depth and Health Way to Win Late Season
The summary of injury reports out of Lincoln this weekend read like the list of patients in a triage unit. With no scholarship guards on the trip to Penn State, and down to just a trio of defensive tackles taking snaps on Saturday, the depth in the trenches at the …
Position Battle Buzz - Offense
With Bo Pelini's disdain for preseason depth charts, we won't likely know for sure who's playing where until Sept. 3. That said, through five days of camp we are starting to get a few clues as to how things are playing out so let's play the guessing game, starting with …
O-Line Depth Cause for Concern?
<font size="3">Among the bigger concerns for 2011, if not the top one, is Nebraska's offensive line. Already, the Huskers had to find two new starters at guard but also needed to develop some depth. Beginning fall practices without returning veteran Marcel Jones doesn't help. Normally, when you hear "day-to-day" in …
Handicapping the Spring Game
<span lang="">Since Bo Pelini returned to Nebraska, the spring game has become a competitive contest. By splitting the talent, Nebraska's head coach has kept things from becoming too one-sided. Even so, it's often been clear which team had an advantage. This season's contest might be the toughest to call yet.</span> …
Finding the Right Guard (and the Left)
<span lang="">Guard play will be a hot topic around the country in the coming weeks, but it will be completely unrelated to football. In Nebraska, with spring football practices beginning soon the Huskers need to identify two new starting guards and two second stringers so the guard talk will be quite different …
Almost All the Bases Are Covered
A few weeks ago, I used the analogy of Linebackers stepping up to fill in gaps to try and figure out where Coach Pelini might try and plug future holes with his recruiting. What I found were that the top three needs in the future (not necessarily this year) were likely …
Geography Matters
Geography is destiny. Where you are often dictates the outcomes in your life, whether you want to admit it or not. You geography affects everything - your economic opportunity, the medical health problems you may encounter in life, even things as small or as simple as your everyday mood. Where you …
2010 Nebraska Football Signing Day Coverage
Welcome to Signing Day, the ultimate guilty pleasure of the college football season. If this wasn't the last breaking news event (or first depending on how you want to look at it) of the season until spring practice starts the whole thing might seem a little misguided but it is so …
Much Ado About Marsh
Millard South Quarterback Bronson Marsh has said he will accept a "grayshirt" scholarship offer from the University of Nebraska. For those of you who don't follow recruiting with a passion, a "grayshirt" is a scholarship offer where the player - Marsh in this case - sits out of football for a …
Offseason Roster Shakeups Begin
The good news was that Nebraska landed a highly rated junior college recruit at midyear in former LSU commit Jermarcus Hardrick. While a redshirt is possible, the rumblings seem to be that they will preparing him to start in 2010. For those who blame the 2009 offensive woes on the o-line, …
Will Recent Recruits Silence the Naysayers?
In recent weeks and months there's been a lot of chatter that Nebraska was "behind" in recruiting due to the relatively small number of commitments to NU and the many commitments to programs like Texas. The clamor rose to almost outright panic by some factions of Husker fans with the decommitments …
Breaking the Recruiting News Rules
2010. Two. Thousand. Ten. I can't believe how early coaches are having to get out there and start thinking about the next year's class anymore. A couple of years ago, I promised not to talk about the guys that will come in one year after a class we haven't even seen …
Huskers Gain Cornerback Commitment
Spring usually provides some very good on-the-field football news. Today, it provided some good off-the-field news for Nebraska as well. The Huskers secured a verbal commitment from Anterio Sloan, a highly rated cornerback prospect out of Arkansas. Sloan becomes the second unofficial member of NU's 2010 recruiting class, joining offensive lineman …
Offensive Line a Top Priority for 2010 Recruiting Class
Editor's Note: Also check out our running coverage of the 2010 Signing Day. While there are many theories about what lead to the end of Frank Solich era, my view has been that the Huskers fell into offensive line hell, which stifled the offense and overburdened the defense. The result was …
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- Big 12 Commissioner’s Fall Academic Honor Roll (2010)
- Academic All-Big Ten (2011)