Kade Pietrzak holds the LDE · Backup spot in Nebraska Cornhuskers’s edge room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Kade Pietrzak is a 6'5", 265-pound left defensive end from West Fargo, North Dakota, who lettered at Sheyenne High School. A four-star recruit and consensus top player in North Dakota, Pietrzak earned first-team all-state honors as a junior with 72 tackles and 19 TFLs. As a senior, he recorded 58 tackles, 26 TFLs, and five sacks while helping Sheyenne to a state championship, earning 2024 MaxPreps North Dakota High School Football Player of the Year. In his true freshman season at Nebraska in 2025, Pietrzak appeared in all 13 games with one start, posting 16 total tackles, six TFLs, two sacks, one pass breakup, and one safety while ranking third on the team in both sacks and TFLs.

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