How UW fills holes key for Wisconsin Badgers' 2020 offense

The conference decided — after meetings between presidents and athletic directors, and outcry from players, coaches, politicians and fans — to cancel the fall sports season and will attempt to move football to the spring semester.

Eric Burrell and Cole Van Lanen detail a difficult week for the UW football team.

Allen, who orally committed to the Badgers in July, is a consensus four-star recruit, which gives the Badgers a seventh four-star-or-better recruit in the 2021 class.

Braelon Allen — a 6-foot-2, 220-pound safety/linebacker — is the first 2022 prospect to commit to the Badgers. He's a consensus four-star recruit, and is ranked the No. 6 safety in the country by 247Sports.

UW freshman offensive lineman talks his recruiting process, his goals and the hill that made him who he is.

Peterson, a three-star outside linebacker/defensive end from Akron, Ohio, was one of the Badgers’ top targets on defense since the spring of 2019. He tallied 21 sacks in his junior season at Archbishop Hoban, and chose the Badgers over offers from Alabama, Michigan, West Virginia and more.

Jack Pugh — ranked a four-star recruit by 247Sports and ESPN and a three-star prospect by Rivals — is considered among the top 12 of tight ends in his class. 

With athleticism and a strong work ethic, freshmen wide receiver Chimere Dike and outside linebacker Nick Herbig have been drawing rave reviews from the Badgers’ preseason practices, providing early dividends from UW’s 2020 recruiting class.

"If I can make a man miss, that’s my first go-to, but when it comes down to it, putting my head down and running behind my shoulders isn’t a problem for me, either," the 2021 UW recruit said. 

After a grim week for the University of Wisconsin football team, the Badgers got some welcome news Sunday.

Ricardo Hallman, ranked a four-star prospect by Rivals and a three-star by 247Sports and ESPN, had offers from at least 16 Football Bowl Subdivision programs, including Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Miami, Florida and Florida State.

Bollers is ranked the 98th overall recruit in the country by Rivals, 147th by 247Sports and 200th by ESPN, and is the fifth four-star recruit in UW’s 2021 class. 

Jarvis — a Medford, N.J., product and three-star prospect — tweeted a video Wednesday committing to the Badgers, in which he called Madison “the best college town in America.”

Oshkosh Lourdes punter Gavin Meyers, who is the No. 18 punter in the 2020 class by Kohls, has committed to the Badgers. 

Kohl’s ranked 2020 UW recruit Jack Van Dyke as a five-star kicker, the No. 4 kicker in the country and the No. 20 punter in the country.

New Jersey running back Jalen Berger knows the history he's going to be tasked with upholding at UW.