Teddy Prochazka’s football path at Nebraska ended with more frustration than anyone expected, but it’s not the end of his time around the game.
The former Huskers offensive lineman is now coaching freshmen at Elkhorn South, where he’s taking on the role of head coach for the Storm’s 9th-grade team and handling offensive play-calling duties as well. Some of the plays he draws up, he hinted, are ones he learned during his years in Lincoln.
Prochazka’s playing career was repeatedly interrupted by injuries, even though he remained one of the more talented linemen on the roster. The injuries piled up enough that, despite having the option to return for another season, the homegrown Cornhusker decided to move on from playing.
He’s still dealing with the aftermath of that career, too. Prochazka is rehabbing the ACL he tore last October against Northwestern, but he said he’ll still do what he can to line up and show his players proper technique. He told the Omaha World-Herald that he learned best by watching and then copying, adding, “Might as well give them the best of both worlds.”
At Elkhorn South, he goes by Coach P. Players can also call him Coach or Coach Prochazka, but not Teddy.
This coaching move isn’t completely new territory for him. Prochazka also spent time as a grad assistant at Nebraska when he wasn’t playing, and that background is part of why Matt Rhule was already convinced he’d fit on the sideline.
Rhule said in November, “I think he’d be great at it,” and went on to praise Prochazka as someone who is selflessly always trying to give to others and pour into others. Rhule added, “He’s literally one of the most remarkable young men I’ve ever coached.
I can’t have every former player but I’d love to have him (on staff). I’d love to get him started because I think he’ll be great.”
Prochazka is now putting that belief to work, just in a different uniform and with a different group of linemen.
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