Seniors Nate Hall and Jordan Thompson will miss Northwestern’s matchup with Utah in the Holiday Bowl due to surgery. Both defensive starters revealed they underwent surgery — Hall on his shoulder and Thompson on his knee — in two separate tweets Friday afternoon.
Hall missed last year’s Music City Bowl after tearing his ACL in the lead-up to the bowl game last December. He rehabbed with Clayton Thorson and returned against Purdue, though he missed three games later in the year due to a lower-body injury. On the season, the senior tallied 51 tackles, including 5.