Caleb Greenn arrived in Lincoln as a commit to the Missouri Tigers and will leave town for home as a commit to the Nebraska football team. For the second straight weekend, the Huskers hosted a player they were trying to flip from a rival program and pulled it off again.
Green’s commitment was announced early Sunday morning, just off his first official visit to the Cornhuskers. 6-foot-1, 215-pound defensive lineman earned an NU offer last week during a camp appearance and then returned this weekend for his official visit. Those two weekends were enough to convince him that Green should flip the school he’d given his pledge from the old Big 8 rival to a Big Ten team that is badly trying to rebuild and reload after a very weak and very small 2026 class.
Some of the Huskers’ ability to flip Green was based on a bit of luck. The 3-star linebacker had been committed to Missouri since April, but continued to pick up interest from other programs. He had been slated to officially visit Michigan State last week, but the Spartans filled up on linebackers, and Green camped at Nebraska instead. One of those Spartans’ linebacker commits was Matthew Brady, whom Matt Rhule and Co. were hoping to score for themselves…