Biggest questions for Wisconsin Badgers ahead of Big Ten football media days and fall camp

The Wisconsin Badgers first fall football camp practices start next week, and this team has plenty of questions it needs to answer between now and the season opener on Aug. 28

The long summer break from Wisconsin Badgers football officially ends this week as Luke Fickell, Billy Edwards Jr., Ricardo Hallman and Jake Renfro take the stage for Big Ten media days.

The first fall camp practices start next week, and this team has plenty of questions it needs to answer between now and the season opener on Aug. 28 against Miami (OH).

Edwards started building a rapport with the Badgers receivers during spring ball, but not all of them were on the field for practice.

Redshirt sophomore Trech Kekahuna missed the majority of it due to injury. In May, Wisconsin added redshirt senior Dekel Crowdus from Hawaii through the transfer portal.

Both will be key contributors alongside Vinny Anthony II and Jayden Ballard on the depth chart, but they’ll be starting from behind as fall camp begins.

The same is true for transfer tight end Lance Mason, who joined the program from Missouri State shortly after spring practices concluded.

Wisconsin concluded the spring without a clear solution in place at left tackle. That should be one of their earliest priorities this fall.

He might be their most experienced option, but the Badgers also tried moving left guard Joe Brunner out to tackle and replacing him on the interior.

OL coach A.J. Blazek will want to get his best five linemen in place quickly so they can start to build chemistry and cohesion to be as solid as possible for Edwards and the running game.

Redshirt senior Ben Barten returns as a starter, and then it will be a combination of new faces filling most of the rest of the snaps on the interior.

Redshirt senior Parker Petersen from Tulane figures to be the leading force at the nose tackle spot, and then the likes of graduate transfer Jay’Viar Suggs and Charles Perkins should find prominent roles of their own.

On the edge, redshirt senior Daryl Peterson will be pushed by transfers Corey Walker and Mason Reiger, but that group should operate on a frequent rotation to keep their legs fresh.