The Wisconsin football program continued its defensive line rebuild through the transfer portal, adding another experienced body to a room that needed both depth and playable scholarship numbers.
Former West Virginia defensive lineman Hammond Russell IV has committed to the Badgers, giving Wisconsin a physically mature interior defender with a track record of rotational production and the kind of frame that fits what the coaching staff wants to deploy up front.
“1000% committed,” Russell wrote.
Russell checks in at 6-foot-3, 312 pounds and hails from Dublin (OH.