Secondary

Cornerback: Semar Melvin, Dean Engram, Ricardo Hallman, Max Lofy

Safety: Hunter Wohler, Braelon Allen

 

Finally, the secondary.

Semar Melvin (a senior in 2022) and Ricardo Hallman will form a good cornerback duo but at safety? Two absolute studs in four-star recruits Hunter Wohler and Braelon Allen.

 

 

Overall:

Looking through the list you see talented upperclassmen at key positions and highly-touted recruits all over the field.

In those names listed above there are:

• five four-star recruits (Braelon Allen, Hunter Wohler, Kaden Johnson, Nick Herbig, T.J. Bollers)
• 15 three-star recruits
• Upperclassman leaders Leo Chenal, Semar Melvin and Keeanu Benton

The secondary will be talented, the defensive front will be really good but the talent rushing the quarterback? Maybe the best the school has ever seen.

Obviously it’s nearly impossible to predict how a recruit will develop and how he will impact the team–as several of the Badgers’ best defenders in the last decade weren’t highly-touted recruits but turned into NFL-caliber players.

But for projection sake this unit has the chance to become one of the school’s best units in a long time and, as four-star 2022 safety Braelon Allen said after committing this week, has a chance to bring the program to heights not reached in a long time.

Plus, an added bonus, imagine the offensive unit of Graham Mertz, Jalen Berger, a top offensive line, Jack Pugh and others complimenting this unit.

The coming years are shaping up to be great ones for Badger fans and followers of Big Ten football.