Progress Seen in Jeff Sims’ Passing Accuracy

Offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield provides updates nine days before Nebraska football’s season opener

Joe Hudson | Aug 22, 2023

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Quarterback Jeff Sims has progressed "every single day" as a passer since fall camp began, Nebraska football offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield said Tuesday.

"He had a goal. He wanted to take care of the football. He wanted to raise his completion percentage," Satterfield said. "The first four or five days, the completion percentage wasn't as good as we wanted," but "he just chipped away at it, and by the end of camp it's around where we want it to be" — around 65 percent.

Sims' ball-security numbers from his time at Georgia Tech are less than stellar, but Satterfield said Sims has done "a really nice job of taking care of the football" during practices in Lincoln.

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Published Aug 22, 2023

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Joe Hudson has operated a Husker-related website since 1995 and joined forces with David Max to form HuskerPedia (later renamed HuskerMax) in 1999. It began as a hobby during his 35 years as a newspaper editor and reporter, a career that included stints at the Lincoln Star, Omaha World-Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer and Denver Post. In Denver, Joe was chief of the copy desk during his final 16 years at the Post. He is proud to have been involved in Pulitzer Prize-winning projects in both Philadelphia and Denver. Joe has been a Nebraska football fan since the mid-1960s during his childhood in Omaha. He earned his bachelor of arts degree in journalism and economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1976. He resides a few freeway exits north of Colorado Springs and enjoys bicycling and walking his dogs in his spare time. You can reach him at joeroyhud@outlook.com.