Defensing the Wildcat Formation

Arkansas prefers to mix it up in the backfield in an effort to utilize the talents of their best two players, McFadden and Felix, both TB's. The former will line up as QB and represents a triple threat. Monk and Felix can't be ignored, but victory will be secured only if McFadden is contained.

To avoid the defensive permiscuity if the Bowling Green game, particularly in the first half, UW needs to assign a LB to stalk McFadden. Usually this would be your Mike, but Zalewski lacks the closing speed to keep up with McFadden, leaving the task to our Sam and Will. They can delineate responsibility for him with pre-snap reads, or simply assign one with responsibility and move him appropriately. I would guess Casillas is our best bet.