MADISON, Wis. -- Several moments have transpired during Leon Jacobs' football career at Wisconsin in which he felt like a missing puzzle piece of sorts. He knew he was talented and athletic enough to fit in somewhere. But given all his position changes, he sometimes wondered where that might be.
Take last season, which was among the most trying times of his Badgers tenure. Jacobs arrived on campus back in 2013 as a promising outside linebacker. But he found himself opening fall camp of 2016 at fullback, of all places, only to move to inside linebacker in the second week of the season because of an injury to teammate Chris Orr.