The Illinois football team is on pace to have one of the best recruiting classes come through Champaign in 2019.
This class has three players already signed up. Three-star tight end Griffin Moore will help the offense in the red zone. Four-star Marquez Beason will be tremendous in whatever role Illinois puts him in. He is a lockdown cornerback and a talented wide receiver. And five-star quarterback Isaiah Williams will dazzle in the Big Ten and will help revolutionize the position.
So far, the class has a nice base that should grow into a top 15 group by the end of the recruiting period. These talented players will do wonders in the Orange and Blue. But, some recruiting “experts” don’t think too highly of the Illini and what they are doing in the recruiting game.
Mike Farrell of Rivals is one of those people who think this could all be for nothing. He has both Williams and Beason on his top five list of early commits that will be difficult to retain. There are a lot of people putting their two cents in, but there are only two people who know what is going on. Those two people are Williams and Beason, and Marquez has a message for the doubters.
“They can talk all they want, I am 10,000-percent committed,” said Beason, “we both are.”
The class of 2019 is only going to build from here. Something special is happening in Champaign and more players are going to sign up. There will always be doubters but the team coming in, along with the players already suiting up, will prove those people wrong. This statement by Beason should help ease the minds of the Illinois fans who were uneasy about the situation.
There is no reason for these recruiting analysts to be fear mongering right now. Everything is fine in LittyvILLe and will continue improving. Beason is coming up this weekend to check out some of the Spring Practices and the Sports Fest that will be going on as well.
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Beason and Williams talk all the time according to Marquez. They have a tight bond and everything seems to be on course for a tremendous class of 2019. #ILLGang19 is strong and only getting stronger.