Wisconsin football: preseason awards watch list roundup part II

As soon as the preseason award watch lists begin popping out, you already know faculty soccer and crisp, fall air are simply across the nook. Per normal, the Wisconsin Badgers have a handful of gamers representing the workforce, most notably working again Braelon Allen on offense and OLB Nick Herbig and NT Keeanu Benton on protection.

Allen, who’s on the entire different offensive award watch lists a working again must be on, can also be on the Walter Camp Participant of the 12 months award’s radar. A Huge Ten RB (Kenneth Walker III of Michigan State) gained the award final 12 months and there are eight complete Huge Ten gamers on the watch record forward of the 2022 season.

In addition to Allen, Penn State QB Sean Clifford, Michigan RB Blake Corum, Ohio State RB TreVeyon Henderson, QB C.J. Stround and WR Jaxson Smith-Njigba, Purdue QB Aidan O’Connell and Michigan State QB Payton Thorne spherical out the Huge Ten’s representatives.

Wisconsin has one Walter Camp Award winner of their historical past, RB Ron Dayne who took house the {hardware} in 1999.

You KNOW the Huge Ten goes to have a bunch of gamers on the Ray Man Award, given out to the nation’s finest punter, watch record. Wisconsin’s Andy Vujnovich made the reduce, as did Adam Korsak of Rutgers, Brad Robbins of Michigan, Brian Buschini of Nebraska, Bryce Baringer of MSU and Tory Taylor of Iowa are additionally tabbed so be among the many finest area place switchers within the nation.

UW hasn’t gained this award since 2000, the inaugural 12 months it was given out, when Kevin Stemke booted his means into faculty soccer historical past.

Transferring on to the large fellas on the road, Benton and C Joe Tippmann had been each named to the Outland Trophy Watch Listing, given yearly to the most effective lineman, offensive or defensive, within the nation. Wisconsin is considered one of 16 groups to have two gamers on the preseason record, whereas Baylor, Clemson and Georgia every have three gamers. As a convention, the Huge Ten has 11 gamers (from eight completely different colleges) on the record. Solely the SEC has extra.

Talking of Benton, he and Herbig are each on the Bronko Nagurski Award, given to the most effective defensive participant in America, Watch Listing for 2022. 4 Huge Ten colleges, and 20 general, have a number of gamers on the record, with Iowa, Penn State and Ohio State becoming a member of the Badgers.

There are 25 linebackers on the watch record, 18 safeties, 17 defensive ends, 13 cornerbacks and 12 tackles.

There isn’t a use getting upset over snubs on preseason watch lists…however, Herbig didn’t make the Butkus Award (finest LB within the nation) Watch Listing and I’m fairly actually baffled. He can all the time be added on later within the season, nevertheless it looks like an oversight as he’s on the watch record for finest general defensive participant.

The Huge Ten doesn’t do official preseason all-conference groups, as a substitute opting to call 5 gamers from every division that obtain “preseason honors.” The Badgers took two of the 5 West Division slots with Allen and Herbig.

Iowa LB Jack Campbell, Northwestern OL Peter Skoronski and Purdue QB Aidan O’Connell additionally made the record whereas on the East Division facet of issues, Michigan RB Blake Corum, MSU WR Jayden Reed and OSU’s trio of offensive standouts had been the top-five there. OSU QB C.J. Stroud was the one unanimous choice.