Veteran Wisconsin road-grader with durability and polish
Michael Furtney is a big, experienced Wisconsin interior lineman who finished his Badgers career with 56 games played, ranking fourth all-time in program history, and he started all 13 games at right guard in the 2023 season[1]. He’s most valuable as a steady, assignment-sound blocker who helped Wisconsin lead the Big Ten in third-down conversions in 2023 while anchoring a run game that repeatedly produced chunk-yardage outputs[1][2]. The big differentiator: reliability—he stayed in the mix through multiple seasons, earned repeated Academic All-Big Ten honors, and brought the kind of veteran toughness Wisconsin line play is built on[1].
