Defensive Player to Watch vs. UNI: Will McDonald

This Saturday will be the showcase of a defense that has a bunch of experience and talent. However, it’ll also be a test for the young guys on the team that don’t have a lot of experience yet. They get to show what they are made of against Northern Iowa. This is a team that in the past, has haunted Iowa State in their run game. Hopefully that doesn’t repeat this season, and our hope is in the improvement of the defense from the last few times we’ve played the PantherHawks.

Obviously, the defense has improved since the last time we played UNI. They went from pretty mediocre to the best defense in the Big 12 thanks to a personnel overhaul, along with a genius scheme. But even though the…