Illinois Football: List of Recent Illini Scholarship Offers

The Illinois football team continues to recruit for the future.

It is crucial for Lovie Smith and the Illini to cast a wide net and try to snag some big-time players.  This is why there are so many scholarships handed out.

Here is a list of some recent recipients of scholarships from the Illini.

Illinois offered a scholarship to athlete Nick Pickett on October 20.  He is from Los Angeles, California and right now Oregon and Utah are the top two for him.

Pickett is a 3-star recruit who is the No. 932 player in the class of 2017 and the No. 87 player in the state of California.

Right now, Pickett has some pretty good offers.  Most of the ten programs that have offered him are from the west coast, most notably Oregon.

Pickett is 6-foot-2 and weighs 185-pounds.  He looks like he would be a good wide receiver at the college level.

The speed Pickett shows on the football field is great.  He can fly around the field and is extremely hard to catch.

I also like Pickett’s ability to catch the ball as well.  Illinois wide receivers tend to drop the ball too often and having Pickett would be a nice change of pace.

Pickett also played some defensive back at the high school level as well.

On the defensive side of the ball, the player Pickett reminds me most of is Seattle Seahawks safety, Kam Chancellor.

Chancellor is a bigger safety that can put a hit on the opposing wide receivers.  I project Pickett doing something similar at the college level.