Illinois Football Recruiting Thread

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IlliniWu
ChiefGritty said:
If Prater is better than Carter Janki and that's all we've got in that NT spot, we are going to be in a lot of trouble.

Prater started 3 of the 14 games he played in as a fourth year junior for the SP+ 102nd rated defense at Jacksonville State last year. When he committed to that school it was in FCS and he never became a full time starter there.

We were sending higher level players than that in waves the last two years.

There's no sugarcoating what it means for a football team when your opponent can blow the DL off the ball and have free rein into the second level on every snap. It can just submarine everything, we've seen that here in the past.
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Think you're underselling White right here. Scheme change yes, but he's plenty talented, great size at 315-330 and has a relentless motor.
 
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ChiefGritty
steelmen72 said:
Illinois is waiting on 2-3 defensive lineman to graduate from their respective colleges. This is the same situation Zachari Franklin-WR was in a few years ago. He wasnt announced until June. He was a silent commit. Illini nation be patient.
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Graduates are subject to the same portal timing as everybody else now, right?

therealmiket86 said:
Also Sullivan played like 5 snaps last year. If he’s in the rotation we are in trouble.
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Sullivan got on the field at Wazzu as a true freshman and is rapidly adding weight. His upside looks different than someone who's been in college four years.

therealmiket86 said:
Denzel Daxon didn’t start at Ohio and played really good here. But Jamo was good at developing NT
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He had great size which that staff really knew how to use and wasn't exactly a star on a defense that declined. But that's a fair enough point as someone who was more productive in the Big Ten than he had been in the MAC.

IlliniWu said:
Think you're underselling White right here. Scheme change yes, but he's plenty talented, great size at 315-330 and has a relentless motor.
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That would be great, he was a good recruit and is our biggest body. I was just reacting to the list Werner gave which he wasn't on.

Fly Illini Fly! said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2055768265943630029
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Bricson Thrower? Good thing Underwood isn't after him
 
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therealmiket86
ChiefGritty said:
Graduates are subject to the same portal timing as everybody else now, right?


Sullivan got on the field at Wazzu as a true freshman and is rapidly adding weight. His upside looks different than someone who's been in college four years.


He had great size which that staff really knew how to use and wasn't exactly a star on a defense that declined. But that's a fair enough point as someone who was more productive in the Big Ten than he had been in the MAC.


That would be great, he was a good recruit and is our biggest body. I was just reacting to the list Werner gave which he wasn't on.


Bricson Thrower? Good thing Underwood isn't after him
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Daxon was in a nfl training camp. He had a good year. He had a 67.2 off grade and played 541 snaps
 
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