When Wisconsin offered Jayden Petit (Naples, Fla./St. John Neumann) wide receiver in January, the Badgers had little chance to pull the Rivals300 prospect out of the Sunshine State.
“I’m going to be honest, no,” James Petit, Jayden’s father, told On3. “I knew nothing about Wisconsin other than it’s cold and there’s cheese curds.”
Petit had a loaded scholarship offer list that included Georgia, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Miami (FL), Tennessee, Penn State, Florida, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, and many more. Out of the gate, the On3 recruit prediction machine gave UW just a .6 percent chance of landing the four-star prospect…