If you’re a casual fan, you may not know these names, and there’s fair reason for that. These players have never starred on the field for Northwestern football. For four (and in some cases even more) years, these guys have donned the purple and white every week, gone to offseason lifts, daily practices, film sessions, and put their bodies on the line to try to make the team better.
The successes of the group on the field is directly tied to this group of six — without them making the starters better, pushing them every day, the team may not have ever had magical seasons like 2018.