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- Pick/market: it really only makes sense to try it in the last 5 secs of a half or game AND if less than 70-75 yards away pretty rare due to that
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Illini Inquirer AM: Five Illini sign with NFL practice squads; Mizzou adds firepower for Braggin' Rights
- 🏈 What it means: NFL teams can keep up to 16 practice squad players for practice and roster depth.
- During a season, each team can elevate up to two practice squad players to the active roster each week, and each individual player can be elevated up to three times a season before a team must add them to the 53-man roster.
- So these five Illini will continue to...
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Podcast: Ep. 1216 - Bold predictions for 2026 Illini football season
- Illinois does not expect Jason Platt or Daniel Brown to be available against UAB, and Bret Bielema provided no return timetable beyond noting that both were doing some running while recovering from soft-tissue injuries.
- Brown was available during spring practice but has missed extensive training-camp work, creating a meaningful loss of repetitions in Illinois' scheme.
- Hudson Clement impressed as a productive Power Four receiver despite being limited during the one practice observed by the podcast crew.
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- Pick/market: DB Jayden Andrews seals a 22-14 victory for @OEHSfootball with his fourth-down interception.
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- Pick/market: @OEHSfootball quarterback @CarterMeindel plunges into the end zone for his first varsity rushing touchdown.
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Podcast: Ep. 1214 - Our 'Sign Guys' for 2026 Illini football
- Colin Dixon is projected to improve on an already productive 2025 season and operate as one of Illinois' top two receivers.
- With uncertainty elsewhere in the receiver room, Dixon is expected to command heavy snap and target volume.
- The staff views him as a reliable all-around player whose intelligence, leadership and work ethic support a high-floor role in the passing game.
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Bowls/CFP Projections
- Pick/market: Was just looking at those B1G bowl tie-ins again, and over the last four seasons, the Illini have gone to the ReliaQuest Bowl, Citrus Bowl, and the Music City Bowl (so three of the...
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