Wisconsin is set to begin spring football on March 10th as they start to prepare for the 2020 season. Spring football serves as a great opportunity for players on Wisconsin’s football team to improve upon their performances from the 2019 season as they try to carve out new roles for the upcoming season.
In this Badgers Wire feature, we will look at five players on the offensive side of the football that need to put together a productive spring camp.
1. Nakia Watson RB Redshirt Sophomore
With Jonathan Taylor off to the NFL Nakia Watson can expect a larger role in Wisconsin’s offense as a sophomore. That role will start to be defined over the 15 spring practices. If Watson is consistent and is able to build off of each practice he’ll have a chance of becoming Wisconsin’s lead ball carrier. Watson finished his redshirt freshman season with 74 carries, which was second on the team but he didn’t register a carry over Wisconsin’s last two games. Watson needs to continue to work on his vision and patience in order to identify the right hole. He showed improvement in this area over the course of the season but one part that made Taylor so good was he consistently picked up positive yardage. Watson’s ability to become more consistent in this area over spring will help set him up for success when fall camp opens.