Over a week after Northwestern’s season-opening victory over Nebraska in Dublin, Pat Fitzgerald and Big Ten Players of the Week Ryan Hilinski, Cam Mitchell and Luke Akers joined the media on Monday afternoon. Below is a summary of their statements entering NU’s home opener against Duke.

Pat Fitzgerald

Opening statement: “Good afternoon, everybody. It’s great to be back in game week. I’ll get started with our players of the week internally from our game against Nebraska. Our offensive player of the week was the offensive line, collectively as a whole, and Ryan Hilinski.