Did the 2020 Northwestern defense return for Homecoming yesterday?
That’s not necessarily a legitimate question — Greg Newsome is currently sidelined for the Cleveland Browns, Earnest Brown IV sits on the Los Angeles Rams’ roster and plenty of other former veterans like JR Pace weren’t present either.
Watch NU’s performance yesterday, though, and it was almost as if all of Ryan Field had collectively travelled back to a time when the Wildcats has a top 10 defense in the land.
Okay, maybe they weren’t that good, but the performance was a pleasant surprise.