Now it's my turn to start, and I am going to try to fill the (previous lineman's) shoes. There is more pressure because we don't want to be the senior class that let coach (Barry) Alvarez down in his last season with Wisconsin.

Absent a legend, they have very big shoes to fill,

As a coach you try to put yourself in their shoes and see what you're doing and how they may counter it, and see if there's anything you can do to be one step ahead without driving your team nuts.

If anyone was in my shoes and they were offered what I was offered, they wouldn't turn it down either.

There's no question, there are some big shoes to fill there. There are a lot of catches, a lot of big plays that Marcus made – not only last year, but in all the years I've been here – and I always appreciated his effort and really his unselfishness, blocking and those things. There's a lot of pressure on (our) tight ends to step up and do those things.

That's some big shoes to fill. He brings a lot to the team. I feel like if we had him, we would have had a different outcome.