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A look at 2022 targets that Wisconsin football contacted today

Wisconsin can now initiate contact with 2022 targets

There were hundreds of high profile high school athletes counting down the minutes last night, waiting for schools to contact them. Per NCAA rules, Tuesday marks the first day that schools can initiate contact with class of 2022 prospects, and the Badger were busy when the clock hit midnight. Here is a look at a plethora of prospects that Wisconsin reached out to yesterday.

The new Badger bat signal “#BadA22Badgers,” a Twitter hashtag used to signify the Wisconsin class of 2022 was sent out to a number of highly touted targets both in-state and out of state. Wisconsin’s first commit in the class, in-state S Braelon Allen, shared the edit and hashtag that was sent out to prospects.

Here is a list of 2022 players that Wisconsin contacted yesterday (not all-inclusive):

S Xavier Nwankpa — Pleasant Hill, Iowa (Southeast Polk) 

OLB Jordan Kwiatkowski — Sterling Heights, Michigan (Adlai Stevenson)

TE Andrew Keller — Waunakee, Wisconsin (Waunakee)

WR Eian Pugh — Oak Park, Illinois (Fenwick)

 

CB Marcus Allen — Marrieta, Georgia (Walton) 

ATH Grant Page — Boulder, Colorado (Fairview)

ILB Jayden Montgomery — Green Bay, Wisconsin (Bay Port)

OT Chad Schuster — Franklin, Wisconsin (Franklin)

 

Wisconsin lands their first WR in the class of 2021

The Badgers land a 2021 WR out of Connecticut

While the Badgers already have a strong recruiting class on both sides of the football in 2021, the position that was missing from that group was WR. Wisconsin went a long way in solidifying that position today, as 2021 WR Skyler Bell chose UW.

The three-star prospect out of the Taft School in Connecticut chose the Badgers over the likes of Iowa, who had multiple 247Sports crystal ball predictions, West Virginia, Rutgers, and Virginia Tech among others.

As a receiver and a kick returner, Bell put up solid 2019 numbers according to his Hudl highlight tape. The future Badger had 36 grabs for 549 yards and 8 touchdowns through the air, while returning two kicks for touchdowns.

Wisconsin, and the 2021 group chat filled with the commits in the class, had been heavily recruiting Bell and hopping on Zoom calls with him frequently in the past few months.

This piece begins to complete the puzzle that is the class of 2021, which is a consensus top-20 class in the nation.