The Wisconsin Badgers added another member to their 2021 football recruiting class on Thursday evening. Loyal Crawford, a 247 Sports 3-star rated running back (46th best running back overall) from Eau Claire, Wisconsin (Memorial), jumped at the chance to join the Badgers backfield and verbally committed according to Jon McNamara of Rivals.
Crawford, who is 6’ tall and weighs 190 pounds, hadn’t received any other offers before committing to UW, but had interest from Iowa, Northern Illinois, North Dakota State, Illinois State, North Dakota and South Dakota according to Rivals and Notre Dame and Northwestern were also sniffing around according to Evan Flood at 247.