Football

Wisconsin Football: 5 Badgers Make PFF’s Preseason All-Big Ten

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July 21, 2023

Kedrick Stumbris

Linebacker Maema Njongmeta – First Team

Wisconsin Football linebacker Maema Njongmeta

Illinois running back Chase Brown (2) is stopped short fo the goal line by Wisconsin linebacker Maema Njongmeta (55) during the first quarter of their game Saturday, October 1, 2022 at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wis.
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Njongmeta is PFF’s highest-graded linebacker returning to the Big Ten this season. In his first full season of action, he quietly led Wisconsin football with 95 tackles in 2022. PFF rewarded him with a second-team all-conference nod. Despite that, Big Ten coaches left the Illinois native off their all-conference teams entirely.

Highest graded LBs in the Big Ten last season:

1️⃣ Jack Campbell: 91.9
2️⃣ Maema Njongmeta: 89.9
3️⃣ Tommy Eichenberg: 86.8
4️⃣ Seth Benson: 84.1 pic.twitter.com/irtHLp51PT

— PFF College (@PFF_College) April 16, 2023

The redshirt senior is the most proven Badgers player on defense. After the departures of Herbig and Benton, defensive coordinator Mike Tressel will need Njongmeta to produce at the same high level, if not higher, in 2023.

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Kedrick Stumbris

BadgerNotes' resident college basketball sicko, Kedrick Stumbris covers Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball and women's hockey teams unlike anyone else. He received his B.A. with economics and political science majors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018 and has had his work published on Bleacher Report and Verbal Commits.