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Jeff Sims would like to tell you that he's certain Dedrick Mills will be cleared academically to compete for the Nebraska football team in 2019.

But Sims made it clear Monday that Mills has hurdles to clear academically before he can become a Husker.

"He's graduated from Garden City (Community College)," said Sims, who was the school's head coach in 2018. "Now he's there trying to get his GPA up. The issue isn't needing credits. The issue is GPA. You have to have a 2.5 to transfer to Division I. It's not like back in the day when you needed to just graduate.

"He's working to raise that GPA. The problem is, the more classes you take, the better grades you have to get."

Sims said he stays in contact with Mills, who was on hand for the April 13 Red-White Spring Game. In a perfect world, Mills will obtain the necessary GPA and report to Nebraska later this month.

"But that will be determined by his grades that will come out within the next two weeks," Sims said. "Nebraska will make a reevaluation and look at his stuff, and hopefully he'll be (qualified), or hopefully he'll be close enough that Nebraska's willing to continue to work with him."