Wisconsin Badgers

Honors and Awards
2023: All-Big Ten second team (media) … AP second team All-Big Ten
2022: All-Big Ten second team (consensus)… Guaranteed Rate Bowl Offensive MVP
2021: Shaun Alexander Freshman of the Year Award finalist ... Walter Camp Freshman All-American ... consensus second-team All-Big Ten ... Big Ten co-Offensive Player of the Week (Nov. 15) ... Big Ten Freshman of the Week (Oct. 18, Nov. 8) ... Las Vegas Bowl MVP

Career: Played in 35 games, making 24 starts … three-time letterwinner ... finished his career ranked ninth on UW’s all-time leading rushing list with 3,494 yards … ranked fourth in program history with a 5.85 career yards per carry clip … finished tied for sixth in UW history with 20 career 100-yard rushing performances … recorded three seasons with 150+ carries, 10+ touchdowns and a 5.25+ yards per carry average, joining Jonathan Taylor as the only two Big Ten running backs to accomplish the feat in 3 seasons from 2014-2023 … went over 100 yards rushing in 18 of the Badgers’ 22 wins from 2021-2023 … declared for the NFL Draft after the conclusion of the 2023 regular season
 
2023 Season: Played in 11 games, making nine starts at running back … earned third letter ... led Wisconsin and ranked third in the Big Ten with 984 rushing yards … his 5.44 yards per carry clip led the Big Ten among ballcarriers with 150+ attempts … ranked second in the Big Ten with 12 rushing scores, matching his career high … made a career-high 28 catches for 132 yards … tallied five 100-yard rushing performances … ran for 141 yards and two scores in Wisconsin’s season-opening win over Buffalo (9/2) while catching a career-high seven passes, the most for a Badger running back since 2005 … posted two-touchdown performances in back-to-back wins over Georgia Southern (Sept. 16) and Purdue (Sept. 22) … ran for 101 yards and another score in Wisconsin’s win over Rutgers (Oct. 7) … matched a career high with 29 carries in Wisconsin’s comeback win over Illinois (Oct. 21), rushing for 145 yards and a score … scored the game-winning touchdown in overtime in Wisconsin’s victory over Nebraska (Nov. 18) … tallied a season-high 165 yards on 26 carries in Wisconsin’s victory over Minnesota (Nov. 25) to finish the regular season

2022 Season: Played in 12 games, starting all 12 at running back … led the Badgers and ranked 4^th in the Big Ten with 1,242 rushing yards … rushed for at least 100 yards in 7 games … reached the 2,000-yard career rushing mark vs. Michigan State (10/15), becoming the 5^th fastest Badger to reach that mark in program history (19 games) … reached the 1,000-yard mark for the second-straight season, surpassing the milestone at Iowa (11/12) … became the fifth Badger to run for 1,000 yards as both a freshman and a sophomore … has totaled 15 rushing scores in conference action over his first two seasons, tied for the most in the Big Ten over that span … scored on a 75-yard run at Ohio State (9/24), giving him four runs of 70+ yards in his career, trailing only Jonathan Taylor (5) in UW history … broke a 96-yard touchdown in the season opener vs. Illinois State (9/3), notching the longest run in Badger history and the third longest run by a Big Ten player ever … Totaled six rushes of 30+ yards, the T-2^nd most in the Big Ten T-13^th most in the nation … completed two passes out of the wildcat formation, including a 23-yard TD to RB Chez Mellusi in a win over Northwestern (10/8) … became the first Badger RB to throw for a score since James White in 2012 … Ran for three TDs vs. New Mexico State (9/17) to push his career rushing TD total to 17, the second-most of any Badger RB ever over the first 15 games of a career (Dayne 24 through 15 games) … named the offensive MVP of the Guaranteed Rate Bowl, rushing for 116 yards and a score on 22 carries … totaled 13 catches for 104 yards in 2022, both career highs

2021 Season: Earned first letter, playing in 12 games and starting 4 at running back ... led the Badgers and ranked 3rd in the Big Ten with 1,268 rushing yards ... joined Ron Dayne (1996), James White (2010) and Jonathan Taylor (2017) as the only true freshmen in school history to run for 1,000 yards ... averaged 6.82 yards per carry, tied with Ohio State's TreVeyon Henderson for the best average in the nation  among backs with at least 140 carries ... rushed for at least 100 yards in 8 games, including a streak of 7 straight 100-yard games ... that streak was the longest by a freshman in school history ... only Anthony Davis (2001) and Jonathan Taylor (2017) had more 100-yard games as a freshman at UW ... his 8 100-yard rushing games tied him with Kenneth Walker III of Michigan State for most in the Big Ten ... his 9 rushes of 30+ yards were most by a Big Ten player and tied for 4th-most in the country ... only 9 of his 186 carries (4.8%) went for negative yardage ... carried the ball just 12 times for 49 yards in UW's first four games ... named MVP of the Las Vegas Bowl after rushing for 159 yards on 29 carries ... ran for 228 yards and 3 touchdowns, including the game-winning score with 3:50 left in the game, against Nebraska ... the week prior, in his first career start, ran for 173 yards and 3 TDs against Northwestern ... ran for 140 yards and 2 TDs on just 12 carries at Purdue