Last season the Northern Illinois Huskies had one of the best defensive units in the MAC, if not the whole country. And it all started with the big men up front.
With last season’s stars Sutton Smith and Josh Corcoran gone this year, that leaves room for Jack Heflin to step up and be one of the key men on the Huskie defensive line.
The redshirt junior defensive tackle hails from Prophetstown, Illinois, a city of just 2,000 people close to the Iowa boarder about 70 miles west of Huskie Stadium.