Badgers offense starting to click with Tawee Walker as the RB1

Wisconsin's offense is starting to click, and Tawee Walker is at the center of it.

Luke Fickell and the Wisconsin Badgers football team (4-2, 2-1 Big Ten) improved to 6-0 all-time against the Rutgers Scarlet Knights on Saturday, thanks to dominant performances on both sides of the ball.

While the Badgers offense has faced their share of growing pains and been under a microscope this season, Saturday's 42-7 victory offered a glimpse of the team’s potential when everything starts to click.

Over the season's first four games, UW averaged just 21.5 points per contest, but we've begun to see the complementary, multi-faceted Phil Longo offense that coach Fickell had in mind when he made the hire.

The Badgers have scored a combined 94 points in blowout wins over Purdue and Rutgers, the most Wisconsin football has tallied in a two-week span since 2020. While some of this offensive surge can be attributed to the level of competition, it also doesn’t feel like a coincidence that they've begun to form an offensive identity since the decision to move away from the running back-by-committee approach.

With senior running back Chez Mellusi stepping away from the program to focus on getting healthy, Wisconsin's backfield needed someone to step up. Enter Oklahoma transfer Tawee Walker, who has quickly solidified himself as the team’s bell-cow, seizing the opportunity to take on a more prominent role in the Badgers offense.

To say that Walker has responded would be an understatement.