.COSTA MESA, Calif.– Nebraska quarterback devote TJ Lateef is taking his high school team to new levels, a few months just before he registers in Lincoln as aspect of a sponsor training class that he counts on to do the exact same for Matt Rhule’s Huskers.Lateef, a four-star prospect in the 247Sports Compound, sent Orange Lutheran High School to a 42-20 success on Friday night over Junipero Serra. Lateef made up three touchdowns and also aided Orange Lutheran combat a second-half rally after Serra cut a 28-point halftime deficit to eight.Orange Lutheran, 8-3, is actually placed 16th across the country by MaxPreps. It is going to participate in No.
7 St. John Bosco following full week in the college’s first-ever look in the CIF-Southern Section Department 1 semifinal sphere. The victor might encounter No.
1 Mater Dei in the champion round.Lateef, 6 feets 1 1/2 ins and also 195 pounds, claimed he is actually “one hundred percent nailed down” on Nebraska ahead of the beginning of the early finalizing period on Dec. 4. He’s a feature in the Huskers’ 20-member lesson that ranks 20th nationally after the flip on Thursday of four-star linebacker Dawson Merritt coming from Alabama to Nebraska.” Our experts’re going to obtain a couple even more guys (to flip),” Lateef said Friday evening.
“Our experts are actually heading to stun the world.” Nebraska remains to operate to flip Millard South limited end Pursuit Loftin from Fla State. Loftin, a four-star possibility, assisted his Omaha crew obtain Nebraska’s Course A champion along with a succeed on Friday night. It will face two-time standing up for champion Omaha Westside at Remembrance Arena.
Four-star pass receiver Cortez Mills of Home, Fla., an Oklahoma commit, likewise continues to be a target of the Huskers.Nebraska assistant Keith Williams saw Lateef on Friday evening at Orange Coast College. Orange Lutheran jumped out to a 28-0 top as Lateef racked up on a 12-yard run as well as hooked up for 22 gardens along with Arizona State limited end devote AJ Ia.Adversity hit for Orange Lutheran in the 3rd fourth as Serra, behind quarterback Ryan Hopkins, a 2026 target of a number of Major 10 courses, led a revival. Lateef went out the game for one play in the third quarter with a lower leg personal injury, but he came back to direct 2 touchdown pushes in the fourth one-fourth, negotiating a protector to arrive at the end region coming from 4 gardens out for the ultimate rating.” I merely had to always keep the men resolved, and our team took momentum back,” Lateef stated.
“I’m constantly going to keep restful. Keep the very same fella in the hardest times.” Lateef committed to Nebraska in May after his April go to for the spring game. He’s remained solid to the Huskers via an eventful join Lincoln that included the introduction of correct freshman Dylan Raiola as the top QB as well as the improvement at outrageous coordinator, with Dana Holgorsen signing up with the system in very early November and consuming as the play customer this week.Williams and also quarterbacks instructor Glenn Thomas have actually maintained frequent call throughout the season with Lateef, that’s tossed for greater than 2,000 backyards as a senior.Lateef has not however gone to along with Holgorsen.
Rhule said today he wish to keep the former head trainer at West Virginia and Houston on workers to work the Nebraska offense in 2025. Of Raiola, Lateef stated, “I appreciate Dylan. He’s a wonderful regulation football gamer.
However my time is going to arrive. I’ll go in and compete and also allow the rest play out. Something concerning me, I’m not going to duck competitors.
He’s an excellent soccer player. Yet I am actually, too.” Lateef stated he prepares to enlist at Nebraska in January.Required reading( Image: Mitch Sherman/ The Athletic).