With Kalen DeBoer’s new staff in Fresno came a new defensive team, and a whole new scheme. Coach William Inge brought a 4-2-5 defense, but a massive wrench would be thrown in the works with the pandemic shutting down both Spring and Fall practice for the Dogs. An abbreviated season left fans with a lot of questions, and hope that a full off-season would lead to a much improved 2021 defense. The addition of highly touted recruits and transfers should help inject some life into a unit that slumped badly from the 2018 unit that ranked in the Top 20 nationally.