On the Illinois roster, he might actually play most similar to strong safety Matthew Bailey. But he gives Illinois someone who the staff can trust to play man-to-man against running backs in coverage, which could allow them to be more aggressive with their blitz packages.
That’s the thing, the top recruits want to play with the top recruits…you have these guys recruiting other players and it just keeps building….the best is yet to come.Momentum is a thing. Go figure.
Bielema in the recruiting trail
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I’m literally choked up and teary eyed. As someone posted a couple days ago, “Is this real life?”what the hell is happening?
what the hell is happening?
Was interested to hear him labeled more as LBer than safety. Prefer to play him at LBer based on the film. Assuming this means the class is done taking LBers.
athletic LBers are a lot like athletic TE’s .Was interested to hear him labeled more as LBer than safety. Prefer to play him at LBer based on the film. Assuming this means the class is done taking LBers.