Illinois Football Recruiting Thread

[Dan]

Welcome to the Illinois Football Recruiting Thread


2026 Illini Football Commits

1) QB Michael Clayton (November 10th, 2024)
2) DL Kingston Shaw (January 1st, 2025)
3) WR Davon Grant (January 8th, 2025)
4) OL Landen Von Seggern (January 15th, 2025)
5) WR Kenyon Alston (January 23rd, 2025)
6) EDGE Jacob Alexander (January 27th, 2025)
7) CB Victor Singleton (February 1st, 2025)
8) LB Cam Thomas (February 6th, 2025)
9) LB Kaedyn Cobbs (February 7th, 2025)

 

[Mr. Tibbs]

that is a real real nice first 7

 

[Hingle McCringleberry]

Feels like a lot more good news coming this week! Incredible (and long overdue) time to be an Illini!

 

[SixthandWhite]

 

[Chukwuwumba]

About 1 a week since the new year. Crazy.

 

[Indy Illini Fan]

We all know Bret loves to hide a kid from other programs every year … Here is this years …

 

[TentakilRex]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1886466673386865117

 

[redwingillini11]

 

[TheFlyingIllini1317]

Interesting he had the vandy offer cause Mac, Heckel, and Bailey and no P4's. Good late add and let's roll into this week and get Cam Thomas or Rankin.

 

[spotter]

 

[pruman91]

We all know Bret loves to hide a kid from other programs every year … Here is this years …

 

[xcatcher]

We all know Bret loves to hide a kid from other programs every year … Here is this years …

Just watched the film and I can see why. Kid has great anticipation and when he gets to the ball carrier… he .. does.. not.. miss! This one got me excited.

 

[therealmiket86]

I posted about Paris several months ago. The kid is an animal. The other player I like at Fenwick is Tommy Thies. He has a bunch of Mac offers right now but he’s a similar type of shed.

 

[Dan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1886474443603763423

 

[Joel Goodson]

really like this add. seek and destroy

has a great frame for adding mass, is athletic and fast. a bigger Kreutz is a very good thing

 

[mhuml32]

I guess I don’t understand the hiding because he was committed to a G5 program since the fall, has 17 other offers, and an offer from Vandy since the past summer.

 

[TheodoreRex]

I guess I don’t understand the hiding because he was committed to a G5 program since the fall, has 17 other offers, and an offer from Vandy since the past summer.

My assumption is that we were relatively quiet about our recruitment of him because if we aggressively pursued him there's a good chance other power 4/5 programs would've followed our lead (especially other Big Ten programs). AKA, Bret has noticed that once we offer kids, many other high end programs follow our lead because they trust Bret & his staff's evals/scouts...

 

[illini0440]

I guess I don’t understand the hiding because he was committed to a G5 program since the fall, has 17 other offers, and an offer from Vandy since the past summer.

Had to get through the portal window to make sure we had a spot

 

[Indy Illini Fan]

 

[Indy Illini Fan]

 

[MoCoMdIllini]

 

[Indy Illini Fan]

I posted about Paris several months ago. The kid is an animal. The other player I like at Fenwick is Tommy Thies. He has a bunch of Mac offers right now but he’s a similar type of shed.

I remember when you posted … Sometimes I just can’t respond to posts … Too many coaches on this board …

Even if I make a sarcastic comment like “looks like a MAC level kid to me” … These guys know I’m full of …

 

[pruman91]

 

[pruman91]

 

[Username]

is this 3/5 coming up next?