Wisconsin Football Player Earns Mid-Season All-American Honors

Sitting at 4-2, the Wisconsin Badgers football team has struggled to live up to extremely high expectations under Luke Fickell in his first year as the head coach. Offensively, the team is struggling to find an identity. Luckily, the defense has been playing pretty well as of late, and the secondary is a big part of that.

Over the offseason, we saw the coaching staff’s efforts to retool the secondary leftover from the previous coaching staff, adding players through the transfer portal and recruiting their own players too. Ricardo Hallman is a holdover from the last staff, but the redshirt sophomore has thrived in the new defensive system.

His stellar play has not gone unnoticed.

Ricardo Hallman Represents Wisconsin Football with Mid-Season Honors

CBS Sports released their Mid-Season All-American Team and Ricardo Hallman appeared on the star-studded team. He joins Duke’s Myles Jones as the other cornerback on the team.

Hallman burst onto the scene during spring ball when he recorded three interceptions during Wisconsin’s spring game, The Launch. He’s been a ball-hawk all season, snagging four interceptions through six games, including this 95-yard pick-six against Rutgers.

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Halfway through the season, he has easily been the top cornerback for the Wisconsin football team and one of the best in the entire country.

According to Pro Football Focus, Hallman is the fifth-highest-graded cornerback defensively (82.6) in the country with a minimum of 400 snaps. In coverage, he is sixth in the country with a grade of 82.3.

To put that into perspective, he is ahead of Alabama cornerback, Kool-Aid McKinstry, who is widely considered one of the top cornerbacks in the country and a future first-round pick, in both categories.

Statistically, he is enjoying one of the better seasons a Wisconsin football cornerback has had in a while. He has been targeted 26 times this season and has allowed just 14 receptions (53.8%) for 190 yards. A big stat that sticks out is that he has not allowed a touchdown in 247 coverage snaps.

He’s going to continue being a big part of the Wisconsin football defense moving forward, especially when they take on Ohio State, who has a loaded receiver room, next week.

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