3-star cornerback chooses College Football Playoff participant over Wisconsin Badgers

The University of Wisconsin football program remains at one cornerback for its 2026 class as a Canadian native playing in Tennessee while play for the Vols.

McCallie's Loia Valade (13) is tackled by Baylor's Jamyan Theodore (5) during the TSSAA Division II-AAA high school football Bluecross Bowl on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn. | Saul Young/News Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

The University of Wisconsin football program still has only one projected cornerback for its 2026 class.

Jamyan Theodore, a Montreal, Quebec, native who plays for Chattanooga Baylor in Tennessee, announced Tuesday via On3 that he committed to the Volunteers.

Theodore took an official visit to Wisconsin the weekend of June 5-8. Among the other OVs he took, based on his Instagram account, included Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee. He also told Wisconsin Badgers On SI last month that he planned to take one to Louisville.

Wisconsin and cornerbacks coach Paul Haynes still have three-star recruit Carsen Eloms (Fishers, Indiana), who gave his commitment to the Badgers in the spring.

The program has 15 players who have announced commitments for its 2026 class as of July 1.

BREAKING: Class of 2026 CB Jamyan “JT” Theodore has Committed to Tennessee, he tells me for @rivals

The 6’0 170 CB from Montreal, Canada chose the Vols over Ole Miss, Wisconsin, & Louisville

“All glory to God.”https://t.co/Ion4RY1WQJ pic.twitter.com/sZQDYzzQAj

— Hayes Fawcett (@Hayesfawcett3) July 1, 2025

This isn't the first time the Volunteers beat the Badgers for a highly-recruited cornerback. Tre Poteat, a four-star 2025 recruit by Rivals who played at nearby Verona, committed to Tennessee last summer.

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