Dan Persa News

Former Penn State defensive tackle Jordan Hill, shown here pursuing Northwestern quarterback Dan Persa in a game at Beaver Stadium, began bonding with fellow rookie Jesse Williams, a defensive tackle from Alabama, at Seattle Seahawks rookie minicamp last week.

It's one thing to be in a position of reasserting your rightful place. It's another to be on the precipice of something greater.

If you haven't watch it yet, it's mustn't-see TV. It was a lot like every spring football practice I've ever attended, but a) I was warm and in bed, and not standing on the Northwestern softball field's bleachers in a light drizzle and b) there were much less starters playing, even than usual.

Many college football coaches, moonlighting as expert mathematicians, subscribe to the equation that two quarterbacks actually equals zero quarterbacks.