The ESPN Big 10 blog is giving their opinion of the most indispensable player for each team this week. My take for the Cats is Thorson. He isn't the best player on the team, but losing the only experienced QB would doom NU this season. If JJ or Ant or Harris go down, that would be bad. But losing Thorson? Killer.
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/133322/most-indispensable-player-minnesota-golden-gophers
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/133322/most-indispensable-player-minnesota-golden-gophers