The 2023 Wisconsin Badgers football season brought about a lot of change to both sides of the ball philosophy-wise. Not only did the offense switch to a form of the Air Raid, but the defense also switched from a base 3-4 look to a 3-3-5.
While this changed things for all three levels of the defense, possibly no group was more affected than the outside linebackers.
As some of the traditional edge defenders from the previous regime didn’t necessarily fit the new defense as ideally as hoped, Wisconsin brought in three outside linebackers in recruiting that definitely fit much a lot better.