{"id":492798,"date":"2026-01-04T23:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/492798\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T23:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:16:10","slug":"ex-notre-dame-qb-kenny-minchey-commits-to-nebraska-via-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/492798\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Notre Dame QB Kenny Minchey commits to Nebraska via portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767568570_299_olson_max.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Max OlsonJan 4, 2026, 04:22 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Covers the Big 12<\/li>\n<li>Joined ESPN in 2012<\/li>\n<li>Graduate of the University of Nebraska<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ebc2999c-2ff4-8435-ca46-9641e9f9ea10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/87\/notre-dame-fighting-irish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Notre Dame<\/a> transfer quarterback <a data-player-guid=\"d78b1c3d-2526-36d7-8a5c-cf8f9c5c4731\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/4918099\/kenny-minchey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenny Minchey<\/a> has committed to <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e9635416-dfc2-d9d6-ff1c-3e0f70ab2d8c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/158\/nebraska-cornhuskers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nebraska<\/a>, he told ESPN on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Cornhuskers secured their top target among transfer quarterbacks in Minchey, a redshirt sophomore with two more years of eligibility who moved on from Notre Dame in search of an opportunity to become a starter in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Minchey officially entered the portal Friday, the first day of the two-week transfer window in college football.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-2, 208-pound passer went through a close offseason competition with <a data-player-guid=\"9efd8aae-3821-39dd-8c77-23abfe62bcb5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/5079369\/cj-carr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CJ Carr<\/a> for the Notre Dame starting job that extended through preseason camp. In six appearances this season, Minchey was 20-of-26 passing for 196 yards and rushed for 84 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Minchey, a former ESPN 300 recruit who was the No. 5 dual-threat quarterback prospect in the 2023 class, gives coach Matt Rhule and offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen a quarterback to build around in 2026 after two-year starter <a data-player-guid=\"cf6c9304-c4b0-305e-bafa-5bb14fa8943e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/5079572\/dylan-raiola\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dylan Raiola<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/47315467\/nebraska-qb-dylan-raiola-enter-transfer-portal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opted to move on via the transfer portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nebraska started 6-2 in its third year under Rhule before Raiola went down with a season-ending injury in a 21-17 loss to <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"63d7a1b4-ee19-f0ae-33c5-42a14e000fb8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/30\/usc-trojans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USC<\/a>. The Huskers lost four of their last five games to finish 7-6 as freshman quarterback <a data-player-guid=\"e1d7ab41-cd60-300d-888e-03b9898d8630\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/5141556\/tj-lateef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TJ Lateef<\/a> replaced Raiola and accounted for 1,024 total yards and nine touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max OlsonJan 4, 2026, 04:22 PM ET Close Covers the Big 12 Joined ESPN in 2012 Graduate of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":492799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-492798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115839381296569800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}