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PLATTEVILLE – Luke Fickell promised a more physical camp this year.
Saturday the Wisconsin football coach gave his team a taste of that.
The Badgers scrimmaged about 75 snaps of live ball Saturday morning on the turf at Ralph E. Davis Stadium at UW-Platteville. It’s the kind of work Fickell hopes will make his team a surer tackling, more ball secure unit than it was last season.
“There is little difference between what we do every day and going live other than the pressure,” he said. “More things that happen in space that guys have to be able to see if they can make some plays. We challenged ourselves a little bit today going live … It will bode well for us in the long run, but there’s a lot of things we’ve got to see.”
With that in mind here are some takeaways Saturday’s practice, UW’s fifth of fall camp.
We’ve seen Acker, a 6-foot-1, 245-pound junior, throw his weight around over the years. Walker, a 5-9, 218-pound senior transfer from Oklahoma, has flashed that potential since he arrived on campus. Saturday he especially showed how tough it will be to bring his low center of gravity down when he bowled through a handful of defenders for a 20-yard gain, to about the 1. He scored on the next snap.
“There’s a definite difference,” Fickell said of Walker in pads “It’s hard to see some of those things unless you go live, even full pads. When you go thud you never really know so when you have opportunities to go like this you can see some things.”
Acker had a similar run later in practice.
Those two players received the bulk of the work with the No. 1 unit as starter Chez Mellusi was given a light day of work.
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Author : Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Publish date : 2024-08-03 19:58:01
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