DeKALB | Quarterback Anthony Maddie suffered a hairline fracture in his left leg Nov. 1 and will not return for the Huskies in 2016, Head Coach Rod Carey said Sunday.

“Our hearts are broken for Anthony to see his career end this way,” Carey said. “He came in and did a great job of leading this team in MAC play, and we feel terrible for him and his family. He was playing some of the best football of his career. It’s hard when a senior loses games in his final season.”

The Huskies will have to turn to redshirt sophomore Ryan Graham, who had a successful outing this past week with three touchdowns and 221 yards but threw an interception in the final minute of the game that sealed the victory for Toledo.

Maddie finished the season with 1,213 passing yards with eight touchdowns and five interceptions. He was the Huskies second leading rusher on the season with 558 yards on 82 carries and seven rushing touchdowns.

The Huskies (3-7, 3-3 Mid-American Conference) will play the Eastern Michigan University Eagles football team, which overcame a 21-point first quarter defecit Tuesday night to become bowl eligible for the first time since 1995.

The comeback tied the largest defecit overcome in program history for the Eagles, who sit at 6-4 overall and 3-3 in the MAC.

The Huskies will look to get back on track 7 p.m. Wednesdsay in Ypsilanti, Michigan after losing its last game last game to University of Toledo Wednesday at Guaranteed Rate Field, 333 W. 35th St. in Chicago.

 Carey said the coaching staff and the players are disappointed but need to stay positive and move onto the next game.

“We’re taking [the loss], and we are learning from it,” Carey said. “We’re going to move forward with a good challenge this week against a much improved Eastern Michigan team.”

Carey said the biggest challenge when facing Eastern Michigan is they are dominant on both sides of the ball, calling its junior quarterback Brogan Roback one of the top three players in the MAC at his position.

“I give [Graham] a ton of credit from the standpoint that he was benched [earlier in the season],” Carey said. “I think that I’ve seen [Graham] work on his craft. From his reads, to his running; to everything that goes into operating the offense, [it] is just better.”

This will be a good opportunity for Graham to look to next season with two games remaining in a disappointing regular season which will see the team fail to make its seventh consecutive MAC Championship game.

One of the biggest issues for this team recently has been its play in the fourth quarter. The Huskies had a 14-3 lead in the first half of Wednesday’s game but were outscored 28-10 in the second half.

“We practice situations all the time during practice, and if we execute them well in practice, we should execute them in a game,” said sophomore offensive linemen Max Scharping.

The game will broadcast on ESPNU. Fans can listen to the game on WLBK-AM 1360/ FM 98.9 in DeKalb, AM 560 The Answer in Chicago and Sports Fan 1330 AM in Rockford.