12/15/2019 football Edit

2021 OLB Ayo Adebogun will stay home and play for the Badgers

Jon McNamara • BadgerBlitz

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Jon McNamara is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has covered UW athletics since 2002 and has worked at Rivals.com since 2006.

Wisconsin added another in-state prospect to its 2021 class.

Sunday, Ayo Adebogun, a 6-foot-3, 205-pound junior outside linebacker from Homestead High School, committed to the Badgers. He joins Loyal Crawford (Eau Claire Memorial), Jackson Acker (Verona) and JP Benzschawel (Grafton) as in-state members from inside the state, with Deacon Hill, Bryan Sanborn and Riley Mahlman also committed to UW in the junior cycle.

A WFCA all-state selection this fall, Adebogun, who had 75 total tackles, including 17 sacks as a junior, said he was looking to make a decision before the end of the calendar year roughly two weeks ago. That proved to be true.

"I just wanted to do it before the end of this year because I love all the other commits in the 2021 class," Adebogun told BadgerBlitz.com on Sunday evening. "I love everything about Wisconsin and it's been a dream to play there.

"I talked to Coach (Chris) Haering and Coach (Paul) Chryst. Both those guys were really happy when I told them the news."

Commit No. 7 for Wisconsin, Adebogun was also hearing from Iowa, Iowa State, Michigan State and Notre Dame.

"It's a relief to be done with recruiting," Adebogun said. "I'm going to start focusing on some other things and it's good to get this out of the way.

"Coach Haering said he wants me to help recruit for Wisconsin a little bit because that's what the other guys did for me. I want to help show guys the beauty in Madison."