Previous Wisconsin guarded facilitator Jim Leonhard is supposed to join the Denver Mustangs’ staff as an optional mentor, as per ESPN’s Dan Graziano and Jeremy Fowler. Leonhard worked as a senior analyst for Illinois during the most recent college football season. He played for the Horses in 2012 as a feature of his very long term NFL vocation. Leonard was conversing with a few NFL and school groups, per the report.
Since leaving the Wisconsin staff following the 2022 season, Leonhard was frequently mentioned as a potential candidate for vacant defensive coordinator positions in college football. The Green Cove Packers allegedly designated him for its presently filled cautious facilitator position in January.
He burned through seven seasons on the Badgers instructing staff, including six as the protective facilitator and cautious backs mentor. After head coach Paul Chryst was fired, Leonhard took over as coach for the final seven games of the 2022 season. He drove Wisconsin to a 4-3 record and bowl appearance, yet declared his takeoff from the program after the recruiting of new lead trainer Luke Fickell that November.
In his most memorable season as guarded organizer at Wisconsin in 2017, Leonhard was named a finalist for the Broyles Grant, which perceives the top right hand mentor in school football. The Badgers positioned third broadly in scoring guard (13.9), second in complete protection (262.1), third in hurrying safeguard (98.43) and fifth in passing guard (163.6).
Wisconsin completed top-5 in scoring protection among Large Ten projects in five of the six seasons with Leonhard as organizer. He at first joined the Badgers’ training staff in 2016 as the guarded backs mentor, learning the framework abandoned by previous Wisconsin protective facilitator Dave Aranda, who left for a similar situation at LSU prior to turning into the lead trainer at Baylor in 2020.
Leonhard procured All-America praises multiple times during his school vocation at Wisconsin as a security. He likewise procured first-group All-Huge Ten distinctions multiple times. Leonhard joined the Badgers as a stroll on in 2001. He didn’t procure a grant until his senior season, in spite of being the beginning wellbeing in years earlier. Leonhard played in each round of his school vocation at Wisconsin, making 39 beginnings simultaneously. He set a program standard with 21 vocation captures and wrapped up with 50 passes defensed. His 11 captures during the 2002 season tied a Major Ten record. Leonard was likewise a danger in exceptional groups with two dropkick returns for a scores and a Major Ten record 1,347 profession dropkick bring yards back.
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Leonhard went undrafted after his senior season in 2005, yet endorsed with the Bison Bills, where he spent the initial three years of his NFL profession and one more in 2013. He additionally had stretches with the Baltimore Ravens (2008), New York Planes (2009-2011), Denver Horses (2012) and Cleveland Tans (2014). Leonhard finished his master vocation with 329 all out handles, including 4.5 sacks, 14 interferences — one of which was returned for a score — three constrained bumbles and five bobble recuperations.
