Numbers show Wisconsin football recruiting strong during second weekend of summer official visits
The Badgers staff reeled in key targets last month. How does their success stack up with years past under Luke Fickell?
The University of Wisconsin football staff didn’t just find success on the first weekend of summer official visits for its 2027 class.
And that’s also true for two of its three previous classes, for that matter.
The Badgers landed five commitments from the list of recruits in town the weekend of May 29-31, which included four-star recruits Jai Jones and Mekhi Williams. They followed that up with more good news days later. They hosted another six players on official visits the weekend of June 5-7 who weren’t committed to Wisconsin prior to their time in Madison.
That produced four more commitments. It started with a Saturday surprise announcement by four-star edge rusher/defensive lineman Yahzeen Zion. Others who decided they wanted to play inside Camp Randall Stadium include wide receiver Steele Harris (Great Falls, Montana), safety James “Trey” Roberson (Allen, Texas) and outside linebacker Brody Pfannelstiel (Hoisington, Kansas).
To recap from our initial article last month: Summer official visits have become the norm for college football since 2018, as previously discussed, and they’ve been indisputably important to the Badgers and the vast majority of other FBS programs in constructing their annual rosters with priority targets.
Coach Luke Fickell and his staff have hosted dozens of recruits beginning with the 2024 class, whose trips to Madison were in 2023. Their recruiting efforts have paid off during two particular stretches: Wisconsin’s designated first and second weekends of summer official visits spanning from late May to early June.
Badger Observer crunched the data last month from Wisconsin’s first weekend of summer official visits under Fickell, but how did that second weekend of summer OVs stack up with the previous three years? Here’s how the second weekends have fared from the summer of 2023 until now.
