wisconsin seniors decision – Syndication Server

The beginning of the offseason for the Wisconsin football program has seen several seniors move on from football or declare for the NFL Draft.

That’s what this year in college football brings, as the NCAA granting players an extra year of eligibility gives each team’s seniors a complicated and challenging decision to make of whether to return for another season or move on.

Notable Badgers to announce their plans to return for another year include wide receiver Kendric Pryor, wide receiver Jack Dunn, safety Collin Wilder and safety Scott Nelson.

Another name joined that list yesterday, as according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Jeff Potrykus outside linebacker Noah Burks will return to Madison for a final season.

Several #Badgers football seniors have announced their plans for 2021. You can add senior OLB Noah Burks to the list of players coming back next season. He gives UW a veteran at a key position.

— Jeff Potrykus (@jaypo1961) January 10, 2021

Burks has played 24 games in his college career including 18 starts his junior and senior seasons. He now enters his final year with 60 tackles, 8 tackles-for-loss, 3 sacks, 2 interceptions and 1 forced fumble.

During a year where Jim Leonhard and his defense is seeing a lot of turnover up front, the return of Burks is huge news for the Badger defense.

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In the wake of the challenging year that 2020 has been on many fronts, the NCAA chose to grant an extra year of eligibility to both fall and winter athletes.

What that did, in essence, is make 2020 a free redshirt year for every member of the Wisconsin Badger football team—in other words allowing seniors to return next year under the same designation, juniors can return as juniors and so on.

Over the next few weeks and months, we will hear from the Badger senior class about whether they are choosing to return to the team for another season or have this season be their final as a college football player.

There is some information becoming available now, though it is necessary to note that none of these decisions have been made completely official thus far—these are merely from their quotes about their post-grad plans on the @BadgerFootball Twitter account.

Here is a tracker of the decisions made by the Wisconsin senior class:

(This post will be updated as more information becomes available and as the players individually publicize their decisions).

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Report: A starting linebacker will return to the Badgers next season

Wisconsin football seniors 2021 roster decision tracker