The Wisconsin Badgers are putting together a strong recruiting class for the 2027 cycle, getting up to 23 commits after the commitment of three-star edge rusher Brody Pfannenstiel.<\/p>\n
That ranks inside the top 20 of the country, and the Badgers have also loaded up at several positions, representing a stark difference from the 2026 class, where Wisconsin took fewer than 15 total commitments.<\/p>\n
So, with all the success the Badgers have had in the 2027 class, which position coach has done the best so far?<\/p>\n
In our weekly reacts poll, the offensive line was seen as Wisconsin\u2019s best position group in the 2027 class. Wisconsin got off to a strong start in the state, with Ethan McIntosh being the first to commit last year. Since then, four-star Cole Reiter, four-star Hunter Mallinger, three-star Reece Malinger, and three-star Jack Tabbert make up the remainder of the room.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a strong new class for new offensive line coach Eric Mateos, who came over from Arkansas and has quickly become a staple on the road for the Badgers.<\/p>\n
For the Badgers to do well, they\u2019re going to need to see success running the ball and getting some more offensive firepower from a team that has struggled to do so under Luke Fickell. Currently, FanDuel Sportsbook has the Badgers as a slight favorite to top their 6.5-win projection.<\/p>\n
Wisconsin does have a fairly young offensive line at the moment, with Kevin Heywood, Emerson Mandell, and Ryan Cory all pushing to start. That\u2019s about to get younger and better in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wisconsin Badgers are putting together a strong recruiting class for the 2027 cycle, getting up to 23…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99,15053,94777],"class_list":["post-717685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-wisconsin-football","tag-wisconsin-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}