Rookie secondary plays primary role for Empire

First-year players in Arena Football usually face a bigger adjustment than those entering the NFL, based on trying to conform to a field half the size of what they played on outdoors.

It didn't look like the greenhorns in the Albany Empire secondary had much trouble adjust in their Arena debut Saturday night. Defensive backs Brad Muhammad, Tevin Homer and Juwan Offray helped limit Columbus to 215 total yards in Albany's 35-19 victory at Times Union Center.