P.J. Hill

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Honors: Ranked as the country’s eighth-best RB by Lindy’s and The Sporting News

2006: Earned first letter ... named National Freshman of the Year, freshman All-American and third-team All-American by Rivals.com ... tabbed national freshman of the year by CBS Sportsline.com ... also named first-team freshman All-American by Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) and The Sporting News ... honorable mention All-American by SI.com ... consensus Big Ten Freshman of the Year ... first-team All-Big Ten according to media and second-team all-conference choice of coaches ... semifinalist for the Doak Walker Award as nation’s top running back ... started all 13 games ... finished seventh on all-time NCAA Division I freshman rushing list with 1,569 yards ... rushing yardage total was sixth-highest in UW single-season history ... led Big Ten and ranked No. 8 in the nation in rushing (120.7 ypg) ... nation’s leading freshman rusher ... led Big Ten and ranked No. 19 nationally in all-purpose yardage (135.9 ypg) ... tied for Big Ten lead and ranked tied for 25th in nation in scoring (7.4 ppg) ... tied for 12th in nation with 16 total touchdowns ... scored at least one touchdown in 10 of 13 games ... just the fifth freshman in NCAA Division I history to rush for 1,000 yards in as few as seven games (the others are Florida’s Emmitt Smith, San Diego State’s Marshall Faulk, Oklahoma’s Adrian Peterson and North Texas’s Jamario Thomas) ... needed just 172 carries (third-fewest in UW history) to reach 1,000 yards ... one of just three freshmen in Wisconsin history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season (along with Ron Dayne’s 2,109 yards in 1996 and Anthony Davis’s 1,466 yards in 2001) ... fifth on team with 18 pass receptions (for 197 yards) ... first Badger freshman to start his career with three straight 100-yard efforts since Anthony Davis in 2001 ... registered 98 (77 rushing, 21 receiving) all-purpose yards and a TD in win at Iowa on Nov. 11 ... 31 carries for 148 yards in win over Penn State on Nov. 4 ... played sparingly (due to neck injury) vs. Illinois on Oct. 28 and carried only 12 times for 50 yards ... rushed 29 times for 161 yards and two TDs at Purdue on Oct. 21 ... carried 25 times for 164 yards and two TDs in win over Minnesota on Oct. 14 ... named Big Ten and UW Co-Offensive Player of the Week after registering career highs of 35 carries and 249 yards (along with a 60-yard TD run) in win over Northwestern on Oct. 7 ... also tabbed a finalist for Cingular All-America Player of the Week honor for performance vs. Wildcats ... his 249-yard effort vs. Wildcats was 10th-highest rushing figure ever for a Badger and fourth-highest by a UW freshman (only Ron Dayne’s 339-, 297- and 289-yard performances as a freshman were better than Hill’s 249 yards) ... the 249 yards also were the fifth-most in the nation this season ... his 60-yard TD run vs. Northwestern was longest scoring run for a Badger since Anthony Davis’s 71-yarder vs. Minnesota in 2002 ... rushed for 129 yards and career high-tying three TDs at Indiana on Sept. 30 ... also had career-long 37-yard reception vs. Hoosiers ... accumulated 118 all-purpose yards (64 receiving and 54 rushing) at sixth-ranked Michigan on Sept. 23 ... his five receptions and 64 receiving yards vs. Wolverines were both career highs ... made first career TD catch at Michigan ... had 184 yards and one TD on 26 carries (7.1 yards per carry) vs. San Diego State on Sept. 16 ... notched 53-yard scoring run vs. Aztecs ... picked up 101 yards and career high-tying three touchdowns vs. Western Illinois on Sept. 9 ... rushed for 130 yards and a TD on 22 carries in collegiate debut vs. Bowling Green on Sept. 2 ... 130 yards were second-most ever by a Badger freshman in a college debut (then-redshirt freshman Anthony Davis had 147 yards in his debut vs. Virginia in 2001)

2005: Redshirted

High School: Rated by Rivals.com and SuperPrep as one of the top 16 players in New York … MSG Network Heisman High School All-Star and two-time first-team all-city selection by Newsday … New York City player of the year finalist … team MVP in 2004 after he carried 166 times for 1,421 yards and 17 TDs … career rushing totals included 464 carries for 4,012 yards and 48 touchdowns … three-year letterwinner in both football and track and field … football coach was Craig Jacoby

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