Skip to content

Ad Disclosure

WATCH: JJ Watt delivers powerful commencement speech at Wisconsin graduation

Dustin Schutte

By Dustin Schutte

Published:

JJ Watt has earned a reputation as one of the humanitarians of professional sports. He’s always offering his time, money and efforts to charitable organizations.

If it’s possible, he’s almost become more popular for his efforts off the field as much as his ability on it.

This weekend, Watt took time out of his schedule to deliver the commencement speech at the University of Wisconsin, his alma mater. As you might expect, the former Badger had a great message to the new graduates in Madison.

Watt talked about pursuing dreams and creating a better world. It was a tremendous speech and appropriate for the ceremony. Below is a clip of some of the most prominent points Watt made during the commencement address:

Dustin Schutte

Dustin grew up in the heart of Big Ten country and has been in sports media since 2010. He has been covering Big Ten football since 2014. You can follow him on Twitter: @SchutteCFB