Pauling came to Wisconsin in 2022 after Luke Fickell took the reins. He had spent the last four years with Fickell, spending his first two years at Cincinnati before joining Fickell in Madison.

It continues to be a glass-half-empty offseason for the Wisconsin football team. A day after landing quarterbacks Billy Edwards and Danny O’Neil from the transfer portal, the Badgers saw starting wide receivers Will Pauling and CJ Williams enter it.