As the Nebraska Cornhuskers gear up for the fresh 2025 season, it’s no surprise they are betting the dime on Dylan Raiola. The starting quarterback showed huge flashes of promise at the beginning of the season. But despite having secured a record 2819 passing yards for the Huskers, his 2024 stint has been marred by several loopholes under his belt. Remember his performance against UCLA Bruins (27-20) in the mid-season where he dropped back, read the defense, made a lot of inaccurate throws, and got sacked? It was everything wrong that you could have imagined for a QB’s image.

Raiola has had his peaks and valleys in a tumultuous season. If he can do tremendous work on his issues with play-caller Dana Holgorsen and quarterback coach Glen Thomas during the prolonged off-season and create some good chemistry with the new weapons in the receiver room, Rhule might be able to trust him for another year again. But his role is a question mark for now. There are two outright different narratives running the drama right now. One puts Raiola on a pedestal demanding the biggest offensive story out of him, another one is watching him lose grip on the QB1 spot, slowly and rationally.