Wisconsin’s history of developing walk-ons into key contributors caused John Torchio to take a leap of faith and pass up a scholarship offer from the hometown school he grew up following.
Torchio scored on a school-record 100-yard interception return and recorded a sack last week in Wisconsin's 38-0 victory over Illinois State. Now on scholarship, Torchio leads a safety group trying to weather multiple injuries.
"I wouldn't choose to turn down a scholarship and walk on somewhere that didn't treat a walk-on like or have the history," said Torchio, who said he also had offers from San Jose State and Rice, among others."I was very aware of it." "Dave and I still keep in touch a little bit, and it's still one of our jokes about how literally that summer he was inside the air conditioning, hanging out and eating snacks and drinking rose and I was outside with the wipers busting my and dying outside," the Green Bay Packers quarterback said.
Torchio recalls that when he got put on scholarship before the 2021 season, some teammates hadn't even realized he'd been a walk-on. "So much of being a ball hawk is understanding how to use that vision on the quarterback and showing up at the right place at the right time," defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard said."He has had that from day one."
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