This week’s Pregame Perspective is something of a reality check. We’re almost a quarter of the way through the 21st century, so I decided to take a look at the last 25 years of Cornhusker football.

On a warm, muggy afternoon before the Nebraska-Northern Iowa football game, I asked 100 Husker fans at the Haymarket the following question: “Who is the best Husker football player of the last quarter century?”

I gave them these six options: Ameer Abdullah, Rex Burkhead, Eric Crouch, Toniu Fonoti, Dominic Raiola and Ndamukong Suh.

Unsurprisingly, the vote for Suh was a clear win. The Lombardi/Nagurski/Bednarik Award winner and Heisman finalist received 80 percent of the vote. Almost everyone who voted for Suh did so immediately when I asked my question. There was little hesitation. Suh became a household name after scoring two touchdowns on defense in 2008, then returning for his senior year and destroying every offense he faced in 2009. He had 85 tackles, including 12 sacks and 20.5 tackles for loss, despite regularly facing double blocks. The majority of Husker Nation would still tell you he was cheated out of the 2009 Heisman Trophy.

Second in the voting was Burkhead, the only player on the list who was never voted All-America. Burkhead, an all-around talent as a running back, received 16 votes, at least a dozen of them from women, most of whom referred to him as “Sexy Rexy.”

Crouch, the speedy option quarterback who won the 2001 Heisman Trophy, received two votes, as did Abdullah, who powered the Huskers’ backfield at the end of the Bo Pelini era.

Neither Dominic Raiola, who won the Rimington Trophy as the best center in college football in 2000, nor Fonoti, who was selected to the All-America first team as an offensive guard in 2001, received a vote.

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