The 90 Illini

It's so interesting that we have several players from central Illinois (let's just roughly call it south of I-80, north of I-70 for this exercise) but there hasn't been a Big Ten football player from Champaign or Urbana in a long time. Aidan Laughery

I feel like some people get lost when delineating between high-end recruits. I was having a conversation with someone last winter, and they just casually mentioned how they thought Elzy, with all of his recruiting hype, was going to have an Arrelious Benn-like freshman year last year. I get it.

I'm not sure if it was the November ankle injury that kept Odeluga out of spring ball or if it was some other offseason surgery, but he missed the spring and is only now back on the field. That's the same for James Kreutz, and I