When Notre Dame takes on Wisconsin on October 3 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay they’ll be taking on a Badgers football team playing without their best player of the last three season.
That’s because all-world running Jonathan Taylor announced Friday night via Twitter that he’ll be leaving school a year early and entering the NFL Draft.
2️⃣3️⃣Thank you Madison!❤️2️⃣3️⃣ #onwisconsin pic.twitter.com/P95PFTMxlS
— Jonathan Taylor (@JayT23) January 4, 2020
Taylor goes down as not only one of the best Wisconsin running backs to ever do it but one of the best in college football to ever play the position.
In three seasons Taylor ran for 6174 yards and 50 touchdowns and never for less than than the 1977 yards or 13 touchdowns he ran for his freshman year.
He had a career high in rush yards with 2194 as a sophomore and a career-high in total yards by one this season as he ran for 2003 but caught a career high 252 yards worth of passes, resulting in five more scores.
In 41 career games at Wisconsin, Taylor failed to reach a 100 yard rushing total just nine times.
Wisconsin will still be in fine shape come October as their eight ten-plus win seasons since 2009 say as much, but it takes a lot to stay at the same level as an offense when you lose a talent like Taylor.