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Arizona football: Wildcats trying to replace Scooby Wright on defense

Arizona will need two guys to step up on defense, and they're more than capable of doing so.

Scooby Wright swept the awards circuit in 2014, winning the Nagurski, Lombardi and Bednarik Awards, an accomplishment only Ndamukong Suh, Aaron Donald and Manti Te'o have done. He also added consensus All-American honors and Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year to his list as well.

But the defense was plagued with injuries in 2015, and we saw what happens when Scooby Wright isn’t on the field. It’s virtually impossible to find the replacement who can both reproduce statistics to accomplish half of what Scooby did, as well as have defenses gameplan around a guy.