Senior tight end for Wisconsin. 2023: 11 catches, 125 receiving yards.
6′4″ · 253 lb · Lititz, PA
Recruiting
TE recruit
No. 463 nationally · Signed with Warwick
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 tight end for Wisconsin. 2023: 11 catches, 125 receiving yards.
Hayden Rucci
Shows up in the passing game from any alignment. Hayden Rucci has been at Wisconsin through three head coaches in three seasons. The receipt: 51 rec yds, 2 receptions against Georgia Southern — Week 3, 2023.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Wisconsin, 200 receiving yards — his college career is complete.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2020–2023
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Paul Chryst, Jim Leonhard, and Luke Fickell. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
Box-score percentiles
Concern: receptions (0th percentile).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Splits · Per-game
2023 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 1.5 | 17.0 | 9.2 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 1.0 | 11.4 | 10.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 1.2 | 14.2 | 10.8 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 1.3 | 13.3 | 8.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Luke Fickell
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2023
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 6 · 2023
W 24–13
vs Rutgers
2 rec · 11 yds
With T. Mordecai — 145 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 64.6 · 50 rush yds (11 car) · A. Bertrams — 43 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 50 LONG
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | L 22-31@ Washington State | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wk 3 | W 35-14vs Georgia Southern | 2 | 51 | 25.5 | 0 | 45 | Season-high 51 yds |
| Wk 4 | W 38-17@ Purdue | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 6 | W 24-13vs Rutgers | 2 | 11 | 5.5 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 7 | L 6-15vs Iowa | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wk 8 | W 25-21@ Illinois | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 11 | L 10-24vs Northwestern | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | W 28-14@ Minnesota | 2 | 32 | 16.0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Bowl | L 31-35@ LSU | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Total | 11 | 125 | 9.8 | 0 | 45 |
Play style
No single go-to route — the receiving numbers show up inline and split out alike.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
No single go-to route — the receiving numbers show up inline and split out alike.
His 2023 production profile sits closest to Jake Roberts’s 2021 season.
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Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Shelton Zeon III's junior season at UNLV (2022).
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Player DNA