{"id":387260,"date":"2025-11-18T09:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/387260\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T09:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:36:16","slug":"wisconsin-football-badgers-get-surprise-decommitment-in-2026-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/387260\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Football: Badgers get surprise decommitment in 2026 class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Wisconsin Badgers lost their second 2026 in the past month when three-star offensive tackle Maddox Cochrane announced his decommitment from the program on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cochrane, a 6\u20197, 290-pound lineman, is a native of Virginia and had been committed to Wisconsin since April after the Badgers had been interested in him for over a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He was one of two offensive linemen Wisconsin had in the Class of 2026, alongside three-star offensive lineman Benjamin Novak, so the Badgers are in a tough spot at the position late in the cycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This decision came as somewhat of a surprise, as Cochrane hadn\u2019t been seen as a commit actively looking at other schools this fall. He did have interest from both Virginia and Duke prior to his commitment to the Badgers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Wisconsin had already missed out on several targets in the summer when looking to get a third offensive lineman in the class. Now, that seems uncertain, but we\u2019ll see if the Badgers look to make a late push on players in the class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With Cochrane\u2019s decommitment, the Badgers are down to 14 players in their 2026 class with quite a bit of work to do over the final month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wisconsin Badgers lost their second 2026 in the past month when three-star offensive tackle Maddox Cochrane announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":387261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68,184696,88530,184697,1405],"class_list":{"0":"post-387260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-wisconsin-badgers-football-schedule","17":"tag-wisconsin-football","18":"tag-wisconsin-football-news","19":"tag-wisconsin-football-recruiting"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115570028433037299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}