With each passing day leading into the start of fall camp, the University of Nebraska's value nationally continues to expand.

During a segment on Thursday previewing the 2019 college football campaign, ESPN Get Up! host Laura Rutledge tabbed Frost as the one head coach everyone will be talking about at the end of the season and picked Martinez as her breakout player of the year nationally.

"I think Scott Frost will do a lot to kind of launch Nebraska back into the national conversation," Rutledge said. "Remember what we saw him do at UCF with that offense? It was so much fun to watch. He's got a dual-threat quarterback and I think when people are looking for these new offensive minds, the trend right now in the NFL, he will be a name that you hear a lot."

Martinez is one of the Big Ten's top returning signal callers and is looking to take the next step in his career, ascending to national prominence for the Huskers.

"Scott Frost is very excited about this young man," Rutledge said. "He has an incredible dual-threat skill set, which we saw on display at times last season. But this year, all the hype of course is on Nebraska for good reason. I think he's poised for a breakout season where we'll be talking about him a lot.

"He also brings an extra level of intangible qualities to the table. I just saw him at Big Ten Media Days and he had just bought a new suit. He looks the part and says all the right things. So, I'm a big fan of his. I think Adrian could be in New York (at the Heisman ceremony)."

Entering his sophomore season, Martinez is already a household name nationally as one of the leading Heisman contenders per preseason odds. Sizable expectations, sure, but nothing Martinez can't handle according to Frost.

"Adrian, from the minute I met him, I knew he was a special kid," Frost said earlier this year during a radio appearance. "We had a decision to make coming out of spring ball and coming out of fall camp on who our guy was going to be at quarterback. Our staff could see who he was and had an idea of what he was going to be come and knew he had a chance to be really special.

"My hope is that when he leaves Nebraska, he's thought of as one of the all-time greats at the position. In fact, I hope he's thought of as the greatest to ever play at Nebraska at that position."

After wowing a sellout crowd at the spring game in his debut in 2018, Martinez took QB1 snaps as a true freshman and finished with 3,246 yards from scrimmage and 25 touchdowns, drawing early comparison's to UCF's McKenzie Milton — the quarterback Frost hand-picked out of Hawai'i to lead the Knights.

Most would agree Martinez is ahead of schedule at this point in his career, one of the reasons the Huskers are a near unanimous preseason Top 25 team according to pundits and were picked to win their side of the Big Ten this fall.