Badgers 2024 Recruiting Class Reaches Coveted Blue-Chip Ratio

Wisconsin has reached the coveted blue-chip recruiting ratio in 2024.

Luke Fickell and the Wisconsin Badgers coaching staff achieved a feat on the recruiting trail the football program has never done before. 

In the latest update to the composite recruiting rankings, Badgers outside linebacker Thomas Heiberger from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, received a rating bump from a high three-star to a four-star prospect. 

What makes that particular rating bump so significant is that it now takes the Wisconsin Badgers recruiting class, which finished No. 23 nationally, to a 50% blue-chip ratio among the commits. 

Of the 22 players who put pen to paper with the Wisconsin football team on National Signing Day, 11 are now considered four-star recruits. 

Those four-star players for Wisconsin football are OT Kevin Heywood, TE Grant Stec, QB Mabrey Mettauer, OLB Thomas Heiberger, RB Dilin Jones, DL Ernest Willor, OG Emerson Mandell, S Xavier Lucas, RB Darrion Dupree, CB Omillio Agard, and DL Dillan Johnson. 

Wisconsin Reaching the 50% Blue-Chip Ratio Matters

As mentioned, Luke Fickell and the Wisconsin football program finished with the No. 23 ranked recruiting class according to the composite. That's the second-highest mark for the Badgers in the internet rankings era.

Wisconsin has never before achieved the feat of landing 11 blue-chip recruits in a single class, and the Badgers have also never had a 50% ratio among their commits since rankings began getting tracked.