DeKALB – Before the start of the first practice of the spring football season, Northern Illinois coach Rod Carey went to watch the center-quarterback exchanges.
Andrew Ness, who started the past 56 games at center for the Huskies before graduating last season, was no longer there.
"It was a little different for me," Carey said then. "But we’ll have good guys that will step in there, and it’s going to be a heck of a battle in there. It’s not sexy for you guys to talk about the center battle but it is for us. So, it will be a heck of a battle.