The Big Ten's five most indispensable players

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Indiana LB Tegray Scales: Scales led the nation in tackles for loss (23.5) and the Big Ten in tackles (126) during his junior season with new defensive coordinator Tom Allen. Allen is now the head coach, and the Hoosiers are shaping up to be a team that will need more help from its defense than it did in the Kevin Wilson era. Scales provides a consistent tackler and an explosive playmaker in the middle of a 4-2-5 scheme at Indiana, which needs to replace his counterpart starter at linebacker. If the Hoosiers are going to make it to a bowl game for a third straight year, Scales is going to have to be one of country’s most productive players again in 2017.