Ep. 1017 - Four-star 2027 QB Kamden Lopati commits to Illini
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner react to four-star 2027 Utah QB Kamden Lopati's commitment to the Illini and what it says about the program, Barry Lunney Jr. and Art Sitkowski. Ryan Easterling also joins the guys to give his scouting report on Lopati and how he impacts the QB room, plus his thoughts on Jacob Eberhart's commitment earlier this month.
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| 0:44.8 | Music Welcome in to the O'I-Nquire podcast. It's Jeremy Warner, Joey Wagner. |
| 0:46.6 | Ryan Easterling is going to join us shortly. |
| 0:49.0 | As we've got to get into the class of 2027 already for Illinois football, an early commitment for the Linae from Cannon La Pottie, |
| 0:56.9 | a four-star quarterback out of Utah, Utah, where Illinois goes to recruit now, apparently. |
| 1:03.2 | Easton Baker and now La Pottie. |
| 1:05.2 | We'll see if Illinois gets down in Bronx Baker, Easton Baker's little brother. |
| 1:09.2 | But Joey, this is a surprise until, what what yesterday when we started to get word of something |
| 1:13.9 | like this could happen. |
| 1:15.5 | But an early commitment, the earliest that I can remember, the other earliest I can remember |
| 1:21.3 | is Mike Epstein, no relation to the guy in the news that I know. |
| 1:25.6 | But he committed on August 6th, 2016, and he was in the class of 2017. |
| 1:32.6 | So a party in July beats him by about a week. |
| 1:36.8 | This is a great sign of, I mean, obviously a phenomenal player will dive into an |
| 1:40.4 | Eastern wing. |
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