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Ah yes, I can finally do one of my "when a player commits to Illinois super early, there's no chance he will be rated and evaluated properly" rants. Hansen committed during the fall of his junior year. And no one (besides Illinois fans) pays attention to

Just a quick reminder that not all of these 90 Illini articles will show up at the top of the page. So far, I've put about half of them up top but the rest just publish down below. If you scroll down below the list of "most

This is the first one where I had that "wonder if I'll regret this ranking?" feeling. I had Jaheim Clarke at #82 last year and then he played in all 12 games as a true freshman. Woodward could conceivably follow that same path this fall. But

It's my age-old debate with The 90 Illini. How many specialists go on? When it was Blake Hayes, there was no need to put any other punter on the list. He had the starting punting job locked up. But if there's a chance that a younger

If there's one thing that's changed significantly over the years I've been doing this breakdown of every Illini football player, it's seeing multiple high schools on their resume. This isn't a bad thing. This is not "these kids need

If your first reaction is "I don't recall a player with a hyphenated last name in the recruiting class", that's because most of Carlos Orr-Gillespie's recruiting profiles just say Carlos Orr. But when he was added to the official roster in June,