The 90 Illini

The 90 Illini #81: Vernon Woodward III

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 I'm just not sure he'll beat out any of the redshirt freshman defensive backs (like Clarke) so I have to leave him down here at #81.

But when I'm wrong, remember that I at least thought I might be wrong.

The 90 Illini #27: Ezekiel Holmes

The preview is about 3-4 hours away. Really happy with it this year. Saying all I've wanted to say, I think. Grange and Seventeen Club subscribers will get it in their email inboxes this afternoon. And then I'm going to try to figure out how to

The 90 Illini #28: Aidan Laughery

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

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