Wisconsin's 'play-hard' tight end room looking to spark momentum with multiplicity
- Wisconsin plans to use multiple tight-end personnel groupings and varied alignments to combine the room's receiving range with its physical blocking.
- Jacob Harris has created downfield and contested-catch value while splitting out wide, Emmett Bork has worked downfield and over the middle, and Grant Stec has supplied an end-zone target.
- Wisconsin's tight ends won the offense's fall-camp toughness competition and are expected to be central to generating momentum against Notre Dame's physical defense in the opener.
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Spring Ball INSIDER UPDATES Wisconsin Badgers POSITIONAL BATTLES - Could Ryan Hopkins be the backup?
- Top Betting/Intel Takeaways
- 247's Payne Blazevich said Colton Joseph has looked like the expected QB1, but Wisconsin's backup QB battle is more interesting than expected because Ryan Hopkins has made immediate spring plays.
- Hopkins was praised for quickness, physicality, timing, and mature touch; the staff appears to have a playable second option if Joseph misses time.
- Deuce Adams has not played poorly, but Hopkins' spring rise makes the No. 2 QB job a live fall-camp battle.
- Carter Smith looks buried for now despite prior starting experience, but Wisconsin at least has deeper QB insurance than earlier in Luke Fickell's tenure.
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