T.J. Watt and Joe Schobert were born in the same county of Waukesha in Wisconsin, less than a year apart. Watt was born, the youngest of three brothers, in the town of Pewaukee in October of 1994. Schobert was born in Waukesha in November of 1993. Both would grow up and attend high school in their respective cities before converging at the University of Wisconsin—where the pecking order was clear.
“I always tell people he was my backup in college”, Schobert, who played on the edge in college, said of Watt on Wednesday. “I taught him one move—the chop dip.