The Wisconsin Badger offense has been anything but healthy this season, with starting quarterback Jack Coan going down with a foot injury before the season started, members of the team testing positive for COVID-19, wide receivers Kendric Pryor and Danny Davis missing several weeks and more.
That trend continued today as according to the team’s depth chart they will be without key starters RB Jalen Berger, RB Nakia Watson, WR Danny Davis, LT Cole Van Lanen and WR Kendric Pryor for the second straight week.
#Badgers' official status report. No Berger, Pryor, Davis, Van Lanen OR Watson.
They will be unbelievably shorthanded today pic.twitter.com/GTtZ9Ji0Ws
— Ben Kenney (@benzkenney) December 19, 2020
Quarterback Graham Mertz will now rely on Chimere Dike and Jack Dunn at wide receiver and Garrett Groshek at running back, a combination that hasn’t worked very well for the last few weeks.
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One good sign for the Badger offense is this Minnesota defense is nothing close to that of Northwestern, Indiana or Iowa, or even to the unit they had last season.
The game will kick off at 3 p.m. CST and be available on the Big Ten Network and the FOX Sports app.
Minnesota preview:
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HC Paul Chryst gives an update on the status of WRs Kendric Pryor and Danny Davis
Film room: The good, the bad and the questionable from Graham Mertz’s performance against Iowa