Wisconsin commit Kingston Allen keeps putting up numbers that look like they were pulled out of a video game, and his latest outing only turned the volume up.
The 2027 running back ripped off 15 carries for 229 yards and six touchdowns, and he did it all in the first half. Allen had already gone over 1,000 yards three games into the season, and this latest explosion gave him another eye-popping milestone: 5,000 career rushing yards in just his 18th game.
That works out to 277.8 rushing yards per game, a staggering pace for a player competing in one of the highest classes Wisconsin high school sports has to offer.
As Kyle Malzhan noted on social media, “Notre Dame Academy senior and Wisconsin #Badgers football commit RB Kingston Allen just eclipsed 5,000 rushing yards in high school career on his second touchdown of tonight‘s game.
This is his 18th game, per my count, as the starting running back for Notre Dame.”
Allen’s production has gotten so loud that the conversation around him has shifted from what he’s doing to whether he’s being overlooked. The numbers are impossible to ignore, even if the recruiting rankings haven’t fully caught up yet.
According to 247 Sports’ latest update on July 30, Allen is the 150th-ranked player in the country and a four-star recruit. For most prospects, that would be more than enough to celebrate. For Allen, it feels like the ceiling should be higher.
MaxPreps summed up the absurdity of his start with a post that said, “A stat sheet that looks like season totals. Nope.
Just four games of work for Kingston Allen. 🤯”
There is some nuance here, too. The top running backs in the country are often playing with and against elite high school teams, which makes those numbers harder to compare directly to Allen’s. But even with that in mind, his sustained production has become impossible to wave away.
Badger fans already know what they’ve got. The only question now is when the rest of the recruiting world decides to catch up.
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