Wisconsin football lands Arizona State transfer CB Javan Robinson
Former Arizona State cornerback Javan Robinson has committed to the Wisconsin Badgers via the transfer portal.
The Wisconsin football staff keeps pressing the gas in the transfer portal, and this time, the addition brings real, bankable experience.
Arizona State cornerback Javan Robinson has committed to the Badgers, giving Wisconsin a proven, multi-year starter from the Big 12 on the outside as it continues a full-scale rebuild of the secondary. This is not a projection play. This is a player who will step in and play from the jump.
“I’m home🏡,” Robinson wrote.
Robinson arrives in Madison after back-to-back seasons as a starter for the Sun Devils under head coach Kenny Dillingham, bringing a résumé that reflects durability, production, and comfort being tested snap after snap. Listed at 5-foot-11, 180 pounds, the West Orange (FL.) native has logged meaningful snaps at two college football programs after beginning his career at Washington State before transferring to Arizona State.
That experience shows up on the stat sheet.
This past season, Robinson appeared in all 12 games for Arizona State and finished with 42 total tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, a fumble recovery, and eight pass breakups. He also recorded an interception in the College Football Playoff against Texas, a moment that illustrates both the level of competition he’s faced and the trust placed in him by the Sun Devils’ staff.
Over the last two seasons alone, Robinson has totaled 85 tackles and 12 pass breakups while starting 26 consecutive games. Across his entire career, which spans four seasons and 36 games, he’s started 27 times and produced 99 tackles, 13 pass breakups, and three interceptions.
The advanced metrics help explain why Wisconsin moved quickly.
According to Pro Football Focus, Robinson finished the 2025 season with a 71.3 overall defensive grade, including an elite 82.1 run-defense grade, an 84.4 tackling grade, and a 68.8 coverage grade. He posted a missed-tackle rate of just 4.5% this past season at Arizona State. This past season, Robinson was targeted 57 times in coverage, allowing 38 catches for 499 yards and four touchdowns while playing out on the boundary.
Those numbers come with context.
Robinson has been tested relentlessly. Over the past two seasons, he’s seen 130 targets in coverage, per PFF, logging 841 coverage snaps against Big 12 passing attacks. That volume matters. It shows a corner that isn’t being hidden and isn’t shrinking from the responsibility that comes with it, but also shows that he’s not someone you put on an island.
This is the type of profile the Badgers desperately needed when you consider that the only returning corners are young guys like Omillio Agard, Cairo Skanes, Jahmare Washington, and a couple of incoming freshmen.
Wisconsin entered the offseason facing a complete reset at cornerback after losing Ricardo Hallman, Nyzier Fourqurean, D’Yoni Hill, and Geimere Latimer. In response, new cornerbacks coach Robert Steeples and secondary coach Paul Haynes have wasted no time restocking the room, adding Oklahoma State transfer Eric Fletcher, Florida State transfer Cai Bates, and now Robinson as part of a deliberate, but layered rebuild.
Robinson brings something different from the others.
He’s older. He’s played a lot. He’s seen every type of receiver and route combination the Power Four has to offer. He’s an improving tackler who fits what Wisconsin wants on the edge defensively: corners who will hold up against the run and survive when offenses try to stress the perimeter.
That matters in the Big Ten.
For Wisconsin, this move is about stabilizing a position group that needed a plug-and-play starter. For Robinson, it’s an opportunity to step into a secondary that is wide open and immediately compete for a significant role. He’s not being brought in to provide depth. He’s coming in to play.
This is the kind of addition that helps accelerate a defensive rebuild. Not flashy. Not a gamebreaker. Just a reliable, battle-tested cornerback who raises the floor of the room the moment that he walks through the door.
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Encouraging!! Glad he chose the Badgers. Thank you much for the analysis!! Happy New Year, Dillon!