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NORTHWESTERN WILDCATS The class Recruits: 17 (all high school seniors, no players enrolled early) Top prospects: The Wildcats added a heralded recruit to arguably their deepest position group in wide receiver Christian Jones, an ESPNU 150 se...

One week closer to the season. Good news regarding Ohio State recruit Jamel Turner, who has been upgraded to stable condition after being shot multiple times early Saturday, Ken Gordon writes in The Columbus Dispatch. Former Michigan signee Dem...

Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg Here's the forecast for Wisconsin in 2009. 1. Dustin Sherer and Curt Phillips both start games at quarterback this fall -- Sherer figures to get the first shot and could stay there throughout the fall, bu...

Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg Biggest reason for hope -- John Clay and the run game Wisconsin can always fall back on its offensive line and power run game, and the 2009 season should be no different. P.J. Hill's early departure to the...

Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg J.J. Watt's long, strange journey back to Wisconsin was almost complete, as head coach Bret Bielema offered him a chance to walk onto the Badgers' team. Watt just had one final item to address.&n...

Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg As players filter in and out of football programs, certain position groups become grizzled or green. As the St. Patrick's Day series marches on, it's time to look at the greenest, or least experienced,...

Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg Wisconsin's injury report entering spring practice looks more like a Post-it and less like a phone book, as it did a year ago, but there are some names who remain hobbled. I caught up with Badgers head coa...

Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg The Wisconsin Badgers are up next on the superlatives rundown. Quarterback certainly hurt the Badgers more than any other spot last season, but the team should be better stocked under center this year. Here&#3...

Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema likely will return to his roots with his 2009 recruiting haul. A former defensive lineman at Iowa, Bielema needs to replenish a Badgers' defensive front that loses three m...

Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg The Big Ten entered the season with two ways to improve its national image. The first called for a veteran-laden Ohio State team with 20 returning starters to finish what it started the previous two years and win ...

Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg When you call Dave Doeren's cell phone, you don't hear any tones before the Wisconsin defensive coordinator picks up. Instead, the unmistakable sound of House of Pain's "Jump Around" screeches through the receiver...

Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg One of Bret Bielema's most treasured football mementos is a photo snapped on the field at Ohio Stadium in the wake of a 1991 game. Flanked by his Iowa defensive linemates, Mike Wells and Ron Geater, a smiling Biel...

Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin guard Kraig Urbik and defensive tackle Jason Chapman have faced each other in practice for years, but it wasn't until last Tuesday that the fifth-year seniors bonded over some country fr...

Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Iowa DT Mitch King is the Big Ten's top interior lineman. Several e-mailers have asked me why I left Iowa standout Mitch King off the list of the Big Ten's top d...

Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg The rankings switch to the defenses today, and things begin up front. Like their offensive trench mates, defensive linemen are best graded as a unit, so that's where we'll start. But because there are so many stan...

Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg Just got an e-mail from the Big Ten regarding media days and wanted to pass it along. Because of a conflict, Wisconsin senior linebacker DeAndre Levy will replace defensive tackle Jason Chapman at media days Thur...