Wisconsin football recruiting update: Expected 2025 visitors this weekend

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin’s 2025 recruiting class officially kicked off last month when quarterback Landyn Locke became the first committed prospect in the group. It’s still early in the cycle — 2024 commits can’t even sign with the Badgers until December — but the staff has been busy stacking up visitors for yet another important recruiting weekend.

On Saturday, Wisconsin plans to host 11 uncommitted prospects in the 2025 class, as well as 2024 defensive line commit Dillan Johnson, who recently flipped from Northwestern to Wisconsin and did not take an official visit to Madison in June. The 11 juniors-to-be are top targets for Wisconsin and include six four-star players, so getting them on campus for an unofficial visit during a modified junior day in the summer, dubbed Bucky’s BBQ, is considered an important step toward landing potential future commitments.

Here’s a look at who is expected to be on campus this weekend. All rankings are per the 247Sports Composite.

RB Nino Hill

6 feet, 185 pounds, McKinley High School (Canton, Ohio)
No 247Sports Composite rating

Wisconsin locked up its recruitment of 2024 running backs by snagging three in the class with the commitments of Gideon Ituka, Darrion Dupree and Dilin Jones. Now the Badgers are turning their attention to 2025, and Hill is a prospect to watch. He earned MVP honors at a Wisconsin camp he attended last month. Hill ran for 206 yards with two touchdowns on 13 carries in his first breakout game for McKinley last season. He finished with 144 carries for 1,100 yards and 16 touchdowns in eight games. Hill has early scholarship offers from UMass, Miami (Ohio) and Toledo.

Luke Fickell’s Wisconsin Badgers are set for a busy recruiting weekend. (Mark Hoffman / USA Today)

WR Kamren Flowers

5 feet 11, 170 pounds, West Bloomfield (Mich.) High School
Four-star, No. 40 wide receiver

Flowers already has emerged as one of the top prospects in the Midwest at his position and holds 10 scholarship offers, which include Power 5 programs Wisconsin, Arizona State, Miami, Michigan State and Penn State. He recorded 21 catches for 511 yards and five touchdowns as a sophomore and 575 kick return yards with three scores. Flowers possesses excellent speed and ran a 10.68-second 100-meter dash for his high school track team in May. He has run a laser-timed 4.42-second 40-yard dash.

TE Brock Schott

6 feet 3, 215 pounds, Leo (Ind.) High School
Four-star, No. 10 tight end

Wisconsin found success by landing four-star tight end Grant Stec in the 2024 class, and Schott is another big-time playmaker who would give the Badgers a boost in the Air Raid offense. Wisconsin became the first Power 5 program to offer Schott a scholarship in February. He since has earned offers from Indiana, Purdue, Michigan State, Louisville, Cincinnati, Miami, Minnesota, Iowa, Rutgers, Vanderbilt and Duke. Schott often lined up wide for his team and had the ability to burn defenders with his combination of size and speed. He tallied 34 receptions for 468 yards and seven touchdowns. As a defensive lineman, he recorded 52.5 tackles, 20.5 tackles for loss and 12 sacks.

OL Michael Roeske

6 feet 7, 260 pounds, Wautoma (Wis.) High School
Four-star, No. 21 tackle

Wisconsin appears to be in a good spot at this stage for Roeske, who has picked up scholarship offers from the Badgers, Syracuse, Notre Dame, Minnesota and Indiana. Roeske is rated as the No. 3 player in the state of Wisconsin in what should be a strong 2025 in-state class. He and tackle Owen Strebig, another four-star in-state prospect, are among the major focal points in this class.

DL Nate Marshall

6 feet 4, 265 pounds, Fenwick High School (Oak Park, Ill.)
Four-star, No. 17 defensive lineman

Eight of Wisconsin’s scholarship defensive linemen this season will be upperclassmen, which means the Badgers need to replenish their pieces during the next few recruiting classes. Wisconsin has Johnson and Hank Weber committed along the defensive line in 2024, but the Badgers continue to look for elite-level talents who can be difference-makers up front. Marshall is one of those players. He has offers from 17 schools, including Alabama, Iowa, Miami, Michigan, Missouri, Notre Dame, Penn State, Tennessee and Wisconsin. He is expected to visit both Wisconsin and Michigan this weekend.

6 feet 6, 265 pounds, Palatine (Ill.) High School
Four-star, No. 24 defensive lineman

Williams, like Marshall, already has blown up as a national recruit. He has 17 offers that include six Big Ten programs, as well as Auburn, Florida State, Kansas State, Missouri, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas A&M. Williams has taken an unofficial visit to Wisconsin and will return Saturday before he visits Michigan on Sunday. Wisconsin, which landed commitments from four Illinois prospects in the 2024 class, would do well to snag either Marshall (the No. 3 player in Illinois for 2025) or Williams (the No. 5 player in Illinois).

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ILB Cooper Catalano

6 feet 2, 200 pounds, Germantown (Wis.) High School
Three-star, No. 42 linebacker

Catalano has been a longtime Wisconsin target and earned a scholarship offer from the previous coaching staff in October. He visited for three games last season and has been to Madison twice to meet the new coaching staff, in January and then for a spring practice in April. Catalano has amassed scholarship offers from Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa State, Kansas and Minnesota. He is an exceptional high school linebacker who finished his sophomore season with 147 tackles, 19 tackles for loss, three forced fumbles and two sacks. He recorded at least 15 tackles in five different games, including a 28-tackle performance against Sussex Hamilton.

ILB Dominik Hulak

6 feet 3, 225 pounds, IC Catholic Prep (Elmhurst, Ill.)
Three-star, No. 36 athlete

Hulak is another return visitor to Madison. He attended a Wisconsin game last season and earned a scholarship offer from the previous staff in October. Hulak met the new staff at a spring practice in April and said defensive coordinator/inside linebackers coach Mike Tressel liked his size and quickness to the ball. Hulak has offers from Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Iowa State, Louisville, Notre Dame and Purdue. Hulak recorded 57 tackles, three tackles for loss, two fumble recoveries, two pass breakups, a blocked kick and a sack as a sophomore.

OLB Gabe Kaminski

6 feet 3, 215 pounds, Nazareth Academy (La Grange Park, Ill.)
Four-star, No. 26 edge

Wisconsin’s previous staff extended Kaminski a scholarship offer last summer, and he has added offers from Michigan, USC, Purdue, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Arizona State, Minnesota and Oklahoma. Illinois, Tennessee and Iowa also have offered. He has visited Madison three times, including for a spring practice in April. Notre Dame has heavily pursued Kaminski, who was expected to visit South Bend this month for a fourth time.

CB Tre Poteat

6 feet, 165 pounds, Verona (Wis.) Area High School
Three-star, No. 34 cornerback

Poteat’s dad, Hank, was Wisconsin’s cornerbacks coach for the past two seasons before the Badgers underwent a coaching transition. Hank was hired in January as Iowa State’s cornerbacks coach, but Tre Poteat plans to finish his high school career in Verona. Wisconsin has managed to stay in the hunt for Poteat, in large part because current Badgers cornerbacks coach Paul Haynes already had a good relationship with him. Haynes was the head coach at Kent State during the two-year stretch from 2015-16 when Hank was his cornerbacks coach. Poteat, who visited Madison for spring practice, holds 20 scholarship offers, including from eight Big Ten programs. He recorded 62 tackles, four pass breakups, three interceptions, two forced fumbles and two touchdowns last season and earned MVP honors this spring at the Red Zone Elite 7-on-7 tournament in Chicago.

CB Remington Moss

6 feet 2, 175 pounds, St. Michael the Archangel Catholic (Fredericksburg, Va.)
No 247Sports Composite rating

Moss is a bigger-bodied and versatile defensive back who holds 27 scholarship offers and has taken recent visits to Notre Dame, Virginia Tech and South Carolina. One of his cousins was the late Brent Moss, who played running back at Wisconsin and was the Big Ten player of the year in 1993, as well as the MVP of the 1994 Rose Bowl. Remington Moss finished his sophomore season with 16 pass breakups, five interceptions and one touchdown.

(Top photo of Cooper Catalano: Courtesy of Cooper Catalano)