Ep. 472 - 2022 Position Preview: Illini tight ends

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner continue their 2022 position preview series, focusing on Luke Ford and the rest of the Illini tight end unit, including whether or not Tip Reiman can continue to quietly be a very productive second option.

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0:35.9	Welcome into the online choir podcast, Jeremy Warner, Joey Wagner.
0:42.8	We continue our position previews with one of the most popular talked about positions with Illinois football.
0:44.9	Because you got to use them more.
0:50.2	The tight ends, it feels like for a decade, Illinois fans have been talking about using the tight ends more. It was a pretty talented group last year with Daniel Barker, Luke Ford, and
0:55.3	Tip Ryman, who really came onto the scene, earned a scholarship, going from Walk
1:00.3	on to Scholarship in his second season at Illinois. But Daniel Barker is gone, moves on to
1:06.0	Michigan State after having 18 receptions over the season for Illinois under Tony Peterson. But Ford
1:12.5	returns. Tip Ryman returns. Michael Marquez back for a sixth season. Joey Wagner, I just
1:19.4	want to get into the questions right away with tight ends. Barry Loney Jr. comes in. He's a former
1:25.7	tight ends coach under Brett Bielma. He's used the
1:29.5	tight ends at Arkansas, developed three tight end draft picks at Arkansas. And he did use him a decent
1:36.0	amount at UTSA. But will the tight end be used more and featured more in the Barry Loney
1:42.4	offense? Dude, we ask the same question every all season, every year. more and featured more in the Barry Lundy offense.
1:47.6	Dude, we asked the same question every offseason.
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