Wisconsin RBs Chez Mellusi, Jackson Acker talk position hierarchy, expectations, more

but our play with st you know they got to get get their noses in there and just start learning but they're going to be super good they're super talented they're young but I'm super excited to beat them uh I mean darion's Super fluid you know he can do a bunch he can almost play Super almost you know what I mean but obviously he's the back but you know he's super fluid super sh dyl man he's super decisive one cut Runner explosive so I mean obviously they com each other coment each other really well but I think they're both really really good see now spring a little bit more what stand out about him he's a dog you know that's why he brought him here man I'm excited I'm glad he's here you know I mean like obviously B for a reason pretty decent super well how would you describe the death and competition in yeah I mean it's the competition is alive obviously the staff did a really good job of bringing people here to make the room super deep you know that's where around the country that's really right things are they're deep and you know if somebody goes down the next person is up you know you have to have that can't really have that drop off you know you know I think in years past you know some guys kind of got went down and you know we didn't really have the bodies to replace them so I think we did a super good job you know making sure we have the body you seen a lot of that two back set from a lot of different formations just what do you guys like about having multiple running backs on the field and kind of challenge the defenses in that way yeah I mean it's super tough you know defenses have to make a choice you know you have different body types on the field you have different assignments you know you have different kind of guys you to guard you know you can guard guy on the route you can make sure you can stop the run so you know offers offers a bunch of different you know opportunities for us to get the ball how have you seen Jackson take that next step I mean he he he can do it all you know Jackson can literally play I think like four different positions at once so I'm super excited BR he's come a long way since he first got here and just playing playing fullback so I know he kind of plays L back H back tight end he does it all so I'm super what's your for this'll be weeks out get prep and I will be uh my plan is just know make stay sharp you know obviously you know I know how to run the but my thing is making sure you making sure sound and stuff like that but yeah eating every time we come out here so don't feel comfortable can have a spot thank you thankss I have a question I can't tell entirely about the bo a why cut down their spits a little bit maybe from last year I I don't know honestly okay I know you tell the backi or not all I know is I just line up on the outside leg of the Guard all right fair enough how you doing Jackson doing well thank you uh what was the biggest thing that you that you'd say that you tried to work on this off season what was your biggest goal um definitely just conditioning you can just look at me if you want to it's my conditioning and uh uh like I told one of of them just recovery knowing I'd have a bigger role um in this offense and taking more reps I would have to do more to recover my body um so that's something I'm doing currently right now like at Camp I I do more recovery but then uh sorry about him yeah um I knew uh as I said before getting more reps men I would have to do more running and I mean coming from fullback into last year cuz I didn't it wasn't a whole lot of running for me at fullback it was kind of a big change and I feel like that was something I could have improved on more especially in the relia quest Bowl I'm just taking so many reps at something I never had done so making sure I had the cardio to do that uh is something that I wanted to make get done for this year you're an interest you're in an interesting situation because you you were a fullback and it it was when Wisconsin was more of a run heavy you know kind of like bigger program but now you know like transition to running back and now brilin Allen's gone and now in terms of like big Power backs to you and then getting and that's like really kind of it you know in terms of like their style um have you tried to like lean more sorry have you tried to lean more towards into your physicality and like like to separate yourself or you trying to like kind of get more with the offense and being more like versatile like where would you say your focus has been that was a question yeah I've I've always tried to embrace my physicality I think it's just a strong suit of mine um but I mean I think there's other power backs I would consider uh tawe I mean he doesn't he's not the Vegas guy but man he is a physical Runner yeah it's it's really cool to see some Lev of things he can do on the field so I think our our room in general is has a great mix of physicality and Speed and Agility thank you