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Barret Pickering's injury situation has been a prominent storyline during the early stages of the Nebraska football season.

The Husker place-kicker has been sidelined by a leg/hip injury for each of the first two games. For obvious reasons, place-kickers rarely suffer injuries that keep them out of action. In fact, NU special teams coordinator Jovan Dewitt said Tuesday he's never experienced such an occurrence during his two decades of coaching.

"This is the craziest thing I've ever seen before," he said. "I've never seen this before. I mean, we go through plans of how many reps (the kickers) are going to take on a week-to-week basis and how many reps they're going to take on a daily basis. We make sure they get warmed up beforehand. We do everything and anything possible. It's like a pitcher's arm. They have a kicking count, and we don't exceed it. We've never exceeded it.

"It's just one of those situations where you almost feel snakebit to a certain degree. It is what it is. We just push on through it."