Isaiah Harris came out of Millard South as one of the Nebraska’s better high school running backs. He left with 3,468 rushing yards, 52 touchdowns and, as a senior, 1,859 yards and 27 touchdowns that led Class A during the regular season.
He signed with Nebraska and spent three and a half years with the Huskers, earning Academic All-Big Ten honors and multiple scholar-athlete awards. In the spring of 2024 he transferred to Nebraska-Kearney.
The Lopers didn’t have to wait long to see what they had.
Harris ran for 825 yards and eight touchdowns that fall, earning second-team All-MIAA honors.
Last season he was even better.
Through five games he averaged nearly 140 rushing yards a night.
A tibial plateau fracture against Washburn ended his season. Surgery followed a week later. For a while Harris believed his football career might be finished.
So he went back to delivering Amazon packages in Omaha.
That’s when the text came in from Nebraska-Kearney Associate AD Rachael Page. The medical redshirt had been approved. He would get another season.
Now Harris is back in camp, working to get himself to 100 percent for a matchup against Wayne State on Aug. 27.
Nebraska-Kearney has not received much preseason attention in the polls, but a healthy Harris gives the Lopers one of the most dangerous weapons in the MIAA.
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