2023 Season: Played in three games on special teams and on the offensive line … caught the game-winning touchdown from Braedyn Locke in Wisconsin’s comeback win over Illinois (Oct. 21) … catch was the first of his career … Wisconsin’s comeback led to UW’s first win in regulation in a Big Ten game (since 1946) when trailing by 14 or more points in the fourth quarter
2022 Season: Played in three games as a reserve offensive lineman … made collegiate debut vs. Illinois State (9/3)
2021 Season: Redshirt season
High School:
• Five-star recruit by 247 Sports and Rivals, four-star by ESPN
• Invited to the 2021 All-American Bowl
• First-team all-state as a junior and senior
• Named first-team All-Pennsylvania by PennLive as a senior
• Named to the 2020 USA Today All-USA preseason first team
Personal:
• Brother Hayden Rucci is a tight end for the Badgers
• Interested in working in the aerospace field and pursing a degree in aerospace engineering
• Father, Todd, played football at Penn State and was a second-round NFL draft pick who went on to play for eight seasons with the New England Patriots
• Mother, Stacy, played field hockey at Penn State
• Grandfather, Thomas Gilburg, played football and lacrosse at Syracuse and went on to play four seasons with the Baltimore Colts
