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Five Biggest Questions for Northwestern in 2020, No. 4: Can the defense force turnovers?

Over the past few months, we’ve covered nearly every aspect of the upcoming Northwestern football season. This week, we continue our offseason coverage by looking at the five biggest questions surrounding Northwestern football in 2020.

Next up, we’ll take a look at the defense and its turnover margin this fall.

Considering how abysmal the 2019 season was, the defense was the lone bright spot as they often did all they could to try and help the offense out. The Wildcats return nine starters of what was a top-30 defense in the nation last year, in terms of yards per game.