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.
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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).