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Illinois Football: Ten Class of 2018 Recruits on My Illini Wish List

By Rees Woodcock

Nov 28, 2015; Chicago, IL, USA; The Illinois Fighting Illini seniors salute the crowd prior to a game against the Northwestern Wildcats at Soldier Field. Northwestern won 24-14. Mandatory Credit: Dennis Wierzbicki-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 28, 2015; Chicago, IL, USA; The Illinois Fighting Illini seniors salute the crowd prior to a game against the Northwestern Wildcats at Soldier Field. Northwestern won 24-14. Mandatory Credit: Dennis Wierzbicki-USA TODAY Sports /
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Nov 28, 2015; Chicago, IL, USA; The Illinois Fighting Illini seniors salute the crowd prior to a game against the Northwestern Wildcats at Soldier Field. Northwestern won 24-14. Mandatory Credit: Dennis Wierzbicki-USA TODAY Sports /

The Illinois football team had a solid class of 2017 commit to the program.

These players will be the building blocks for the future success of this football team.  They are going to come in and hopefully, put pressure on some of the starters from the year before.

I fully expect to see some of the recruits coming in from 2017 to start for the Illini this season.  They are just that talented and Lovie has a great eye for talent.

The same goes for the class of 2018 as well.  This will be the first class Lovie can really land some big-time recruits.

In 2018 there will be a number of talented prospects the Illini will be pursuing and some of them will even be from the state of Illinois.

Owning the state is huge for the Illini.  Lovie has to start with getting players that are high caliber from the state of Illinois and then expand out.

This is what happened with the class of 2017 and I think it will happen even more with 2018.

Illinois proved to the world that this can be a great program with Lovie getting a top 50 class in the first year he was in Champaign.

I can’t imagine what the future will hold for this program.

Here are ten players to watch out for in the class of 2018.

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