Illinois Football Recruiting Thread

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therealmiket86 said:
It’s a lot easier to turn a raw prospect into a te. Teaching him pad level and hand technique would almost be impossible if he has no playing experience. You see the nfl take big athletes and turn them into te’s
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Michael Osei-Bonsu appears to be one massive, ultra-athletic dude!

It might have been better for this young man to have gotten himself into football earlier.
 
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Illini4Christ said:
Aaron Adeoye from Marion is like this kid. Aaron played basketball for four years at four different colleges before the Baltimore Ravens gave him a shot as a defensive end and he was on their practice squad for a couple or so years and then went over to the Jets and Green Bay.

It could work depending on his effort.
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That’s one example and it was a practice squad player. Brock Lesnar tried to play dt in the nfl and it didn’t work out. It’s much more common for a player like that to come in and play te
 
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