Ep. 1184 - Illini add four Class of 2027 commits; Players we need to talk about more
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner discuss the latest commitments for Illinois football, including 2026 Unity QB Dane Eisenmenger and four Class of 2027 prospects: QB Sladen Shack, TE Cade Newman, OL Gavin Ericson-Staton and DL Ryan Paulsen. The guys also preview another weekend of Class of 2027 official visitors before discussing Illinois football players they think deserve more focus heading into the 2026 season.
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| 0:27.8 | the Instacart app and shop today. Welcome in to the O'Anne Inquirer podcast. It is Jeremy Warner and Joey Wagner with you on this Friday, June 12th recording in the morning. Got my new O'Lanine Choir gear here, Joey. We got a new shipment in for you, |
| 0:56.6 | Kyle and I. So next time I see you, I'll be like, Sansa Jeremy dropping all this off. |
| 1:01.9 | But it really was Mrs. Werner, Tiffany, that put this all together. So you can thank her. |
| 1:07.2 | We got a new shipment of Alina Inquirer gear. So we'll look nice for this new football season coming up. That does not surprise me that it was Mrs. Werner, who is doing this. Yeah, I'm excited. I was going to say what you get. Forget my address. Can't get something in the mail to me? She just dropped them off today. She just dropped them off today. So we got got some full full zip-ups. We got some quarter zip-ups. |
| 1:29.2 | New polo. |
| 1:30.3 | We needed new polos. |
| 1:29.7 | You and I have gotten a little bigger |
| 1:31.5 | since the last time we got a shipment in. |
| 1:35.6 | Yes, I have. |
| 1:37.1 | I have, too. My problem |
| 1:39.7 | is outside of the lack of exercise and eating like crap, I'm just |
| 1:42.8 | tall. You're tall. Yes, you're tall. It's an issue. You know, big guys got to worry about this. I like the look at your face and say, Werner, way to call me out there. No, I've gotten bigger too. So like I needed some new stuff. Like, and you're just a tall man. Yeah, you know what? Well, there's another issue. We'll stick on the hype for now. |
| 2:02.2 | All right. We do have a lot to talk about. Illinois adds another late addition to the class of |
| 2:06.5 | 2026. We'll talk about that. Four new commitments in the class of 2027 plus another wave of official |
| 2:14.3 | visitors this weekend. Five uncommitted guys, two committed guys. |
| 2:20.9 | So plenty to talk about. But the heart of this podcast is going to be, |
| 2:24.4 | Joey and I were just chatting some of these camps. I was like, I feel like there's some guys we haven't talked enough about on the podcast. We've talked a lot about the newcomers. |
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