Maurice Washington may be delayed in getting to Lincoln, but the Husker staff is standing in support of the running back recruit to get whatever needs taken care of to be part of the program.

An academic redshirt still could be in the cards, but that shouldn't be written in pen either, according to Nebraska's head coach.

"He's working hard and doing everything that he can," Scott Frost told Husker247 on Thursday morning. "When a kid is committed to us, we're committed to them. And we're not going to drop them if they get hurt, or if a better guy comes along. We let a guy commit to us, and that comes along with a guy that comes from us to them."

Washington is back in his home state of California right now after not finishing the semester at Trinity Christian School in Cedar Hill, Texas, where he had been spending his senior year.

Frost pointed out that Washington hasn't had an easy go of it for various reasons.

"Maurice has been through a lot for two years. He's been through several different high schools, he's lost his father, he really had a rough junior year with some of those things happening and that kind of set him back," the coach said. "But we're going to stand beside him and stick with him and try to help him get everything done he needs to get done to make sure his future is what he wants it to be."

Asked about Washington's campus arrival not being until August, and perhaps having to sit out 2018 with an academic redshirt, Frost said, "Not necessarily."

"We're going to look at all options and see how far he can come along this spring," he added. "He's probably going to have an opportunity to make up a little bit in the summer. We'll see how far he gets along, and we're going to try to walk him through all those steps. We're just looking forward to the possibility of having him in our program, and we'll do whatever we can to make it happen."

It's still wait-and-see to find out if some other 2018 Husker signees are delayed in their arrival.

"Every year there is going to be a couple guys that have a little work to do to make sure that they're qualifiers and they can get here. And we're going to stick with them and see it through. But the majority of the guys, really all the guys we recruited, are doing well right now and we're optimistic."

That is the same word the coach uses in talking about the health of some key players already in town. Like Mick Stoltenberg, JoJo Domann, Michael Decker and Luke Gifford.

"I think all of them are progressing really well. (Head football trainer) Mark Mayer has done a really good job in the training room and the guys have been diligent about getting in there to try to get ready," Frost said. "Right now we're really optimistic about having all those guys."

And running back Tre Bryant? There are good signs. As some of his released social media videos of him running and cutting have shown.

"He's been working hard," Frost said. "We got high hopes for that one too."