Another quickly rising junior is Bay Port’s Alex Warden Alex Warden 6'5" | 245 lbs | OL Bay Port | 2025 State WI . Not only will his ranking change after the season, so will that weight. Alex is now up to 6’6″ 240 lbs, and he is beaming with high end potential. The Bay Port product is a long, athletic kid who is growing and filling out his frame all while showing very high end traits that you love to see in D1 quality OL. Alex has a rare base of athleticism, body control, and balance for the position. The OT moves so smooth and quickly as he reaches DL, gets to the second level, or gets out in space. He plays with great leverage thanks to flexible hips, knees, and ankles. The wrestler shows that he clearly understands leverage and how to use it to his advantage. Plus he has the heavyweight boxer hands that can clamp on and completely control his man or land that initial punch sending them to the ground. Warden has earned an offer from Wyoming, and I have a feeling we are close to watching him recruitment truly take off. In a Class full of FBS level OL, Alex finds himself right in the race for being one of the best.

Let’s stick to the Upper Midwest and head east from Minnesota to Wisconsin, where Bay Port High School sits right outside of downtown Green Bay and is another program on this list home to high-powered prospects besides the one we are taking a deep dive into. The Pirates have an emerging stud in the Wisconsin 2025 class in 6’5, 240 lb. lineman Alex Warden, who also doubles as an All-Conference wrestler, accomplished thrower on the track team, and lifter who reports a 515 lb. squat and 265 lb. bench. His hard work paid off earlier this month when his received his first overall offer from FBS Wyoming, shortly after their double OT thrilling upset over Texas Tech. The Cowboys do an excellent job of recruiting Upper Midwest prospects, and more often than not when they get involved, many more big-time programs follow. Warden is off to a hot start in 2023, as the RT is a strong kid who gets off the ball well, can bend and play with good pad level in his stance, and is a hammer at the point of attack. He is agile and controlled enough to execute effective pulls around the LOS and works to the second level well as a blocker. As a DT he flies off the ball, is strong and motivated enough to work off double teams, and has the motor to run down loose ball carriers far from the LOS. He plays far more powerfully than his 240 lbs. would suggest and thrives in the physicality department, much like many Wisconsin-bred linemen before him. Stay posted on Warden’s budding recruitment, it’s far from done.