Saturday, March 14, 2015

Running Back U.

So Illinois may never be great at football, but they can be good at some things. And in the next 5 years, that might be running the ball. In the last 15 years, we've seen Pierre Thomas, Rashard Mendenhall and Mikel Leshoure.

Joining the team this fall:

4-star OT Gabe Megginson
4-star RB Ke'Shawn Vaughn
3-star RB Dre Brown (Edit: April 18, Dre Brown tears ACL, medical redshirt likely in 2015, should be a freshman in 2016 now)

On most lists, those are the three best Class of 2015 recruits. 3-star QB Jimmy Fitzgerald and 3-star DT Jamal Milan round out our top 5.

And today we've added 2 recruits to the Class of 2016.

4-star RB Kentrail Moran
3-star QB Eli Peters

From this vantage point, over the next 5 years, RB depth looks pretty good.

(Edit: Jan 22, 2016: Moran has decommitted.)

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