A Husker redshirt freshman wide receiver is exploring his options elsewhere.

An NU football spokesman confirmed to Husker247 that Miles Jones has informed Nebraska coaches of his intention to put his name in the transfer portal. His name already was showing up in the portal as of early Monday afternoon, as viewed by 247Sports.

Out of Miramar, Florida, the 5-foot-8, 175-pound Jones has played in four games this 2019 season, but has not registered on the stat sheet. A year ago he played in one game against Bethune-Cookman, in which he had one carry for five yards and one catch for 21.

The 2018 class Jones was part of has been hit hard by departures. He joins Cam'Ron Jones, C.J. Smith and Greg Bell as those from the class who have left early. In addition, Willie Canty and Dominick Watt were players who signed with Nebraska but didn't make it here academically. A late summer addition that year, cornerback Will Jackson, was also here short term. There are also three members of that class currently on the outside looking in when it comes to the team for off-the-field circumstances: Maurice Washington, Katerian Legrone and Andre Hunt.

In the case of Jones, it was a tough first year for him physically, with setbacks slowing him at the end of his first fall camp and then shoulder surgery required after his appearance in that one game in 2018.

The initial thought was Jones might take off in the Duck-R spot in the Husker offense. His speed helped his team go 14-0 and win the Class 5A state championship in Florida his senior year. Jones arrived to the spring with hopes of getting on the field more this year, and paid close attention to the way JD Spielman operated. He also acknowledged it took some getting used to playing at this level after he had 1,830 all-purpose yards as a senior at American Heritage High School down in Florida.

"I've got to work harder," Jones said in April of his mission. "High school, you can just show up to the field, and if you're the best, you just do what you got to do. Here, you've definitely got to work even when there's no practice. You got to work after practice, got to work before practice. Take care of your body. I realized that the second I got here."

Jones did not play this past Saturday in Nebraska's 38-31 loss to Indiana.

The Huskers have struggled to find consistency and trusted depth at the wide receiver position this season. JD Spielman has 566 yards receiving and Wan'Dale Robinson has 407. After that, the next in line is Kanawai Noa with 126 receiving yards. Nobody else in that room has hit 100 yards on the season yet.

The information regarding Jones' planned departure came to light after Frost held his weekly press conference. In it, Frost spoke of having a productive Monday meeting with players about the intensity displayed from him during his team's 38-31 loss to Indiana.

"There comes a time and a place where you have to rip some tails, honestly, and that's what we did," Frost said. "But I wanted our players to understand the reason we did that, why we did that. Wanted them to know it's never personal. And the guys get it."

Added Frost, "I thought the togetherness got better today."