Wisconsin starting safety and vocal leader Collin Wilder will miss the team’s final game of the season with an injury, according to a report from the Wisconsin State Journal’s Colten Bartholomew. Wilder called the injury “very serious injury,” with more news sure to come when he speaks to the media tomorrow.
The news is tough on many levels, as Wilder is one of the team’s primary leaders and is a significant contributor to the nation’s second-best defense. Even more so, the safety was ejected early in Wisconsin’s loss to Minnesota due to targeting and was unable to help the Badgers battle for a Big Ten West title.
The former Houston Cougar transferred to Wisconsin back in 2018. He went on to start 13 games over three seasons as a Badger which included 80 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, 5 interceptions and 1 fumble recovery.
He said thank you to many in a heartfelt video posted on social media earlier today:
A message from @WilderCollin:
"Breaks my heart to say my season and final game at Wisconsin was cut short, but I'll be bringing juice 'till they run me out of Vegas. Through everything all I can say is 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙔𝙤𝙪" pic.twitter.com/z5y3J2pY9U
— Wisconsin Football (@BadgerFootball) December 13, 2021
Wisconsin will now likely turn to John Torchio to start alongside Scott Nelson at safety when the team travels to play Arizona State in the Las Vegas Bowl.
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