The Badgers added a pair of tight ends early in the transfer portal.
The Wisconsin Badgers added a second tight end in the transfer portal over the weekend, landing Southern Illinois transfer Ryan Schwendeman after adding Bowling Green transfer Jacob Harris.
Schwendeman, a rising redshirt senior, is a bigger tight end at 6’5, 245 pounds who has played 25 games in his career, catching 28 passes for 327 yards and four touchdowns. Playing in nine games in 2025, he caught 15 passes for 191 yards and two scores.
After redshirting in 2022, Schwendeman played in 12 games as a redshirt freshman in 2023, starting four. He then started the first four games of the 2024 season before suffering a season-ending injury and was Southern Illinois’s starting tight end in 2025.
While entering his fifth year of college football this season, Schwendeman has two years of eligibility remaining due to the medical redshirt in 2024.
He fills the role left by senior Jackson Acker as a physical blocking tight end, while also having some pass-catching capability. More importantly, he bridges the gap between the younger tight ends on the roster, as Wisconsin’s room is filled with underclassmen.
The Badgers have added a few skill position players in the transfer portal, landing Iowa State running back Abu Sama, Oklahoma State wideout Shamar Rigby, and the two aforementioned transfer tight ends.
With Harris and Schwendeman in the fold, here’s what Wisconsin’s tight end room looks like in 2025:
Jacob Harris (transfer)
Ryan Schwendeman (transfer)
Grant Stec
Emmett Bork
Nizyi Davis
Jackson McGohan
Jack Sievers (incoming freshman)
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