In what is surely a shock to everyone reading this article, the Wisconsin Badgers’ highest ranked recruit in the 2021 class is an offensive tackle. Nolan Rucci, the 5-star recruit from Warwick High School in Lititz, Pa. joins his older brother, Hayden, in Madison to bolster an offensive line unit that has loaded up on highly touted people movers over the past few recruiting classes.
Rucci, a mountain masquerading as a man at 6-foot-8 and 295 pounds, is the prototypical build for an offensive tackle. Despite weighting nearly 300 pounds, he’s still filling out his frame, and is, I use this term loosely to describe a man of his size, slight.