Ep. 989 - 2025 Illini football position rankings
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
247Sports, Illinois, Illinois Football, Illinois Basketball, Illinois Athletics, College Football, C
4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Joey Wagner break down the Illinois football 2025 roster by ranking position groups. The guys discuss the positions they have most confidence and why and some positions where they still have question marks.
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| 0:51.0 | It is Jeremy Warner, Joey Wagner, starting off the week with some football talk here on the Illinois Enquirer podcast. |
| 0:55.6 | And what we're going to do today is something we usually do on the site, but I just thought it was a better conversation for the podcast today, Joey. |
| 0:59.7 | We're going to go through the positions at Illinois football and rank them based on what we've |
| 1:03.8 | seen, what Illinois has added, and how we feel about these groups. |
| 1:08.4 | And I do feel like we have to give the warning that just because we have a |
| 1:14.4 | position lower, it doesn't mean we're lower on what that position can accomplish. Because it's kind of |
| 1:19.7 | a great exercise for Illinois fans now. Because Joey, like the last few on here, I feel like are |
| 1:25.2 | serviceable groups and could be good groups in the Big Ten. And it's kind of a statement of where Illinois could be. So this was a very difficult exercise, I think, especially in the middle here, because of the depth and the talent, Illinois is starting crew on the roster. Yeah, I was like texting you and I was preparing this one. It's like, I think this could go here. It's like, wait, we should just talk about this on the pod. |
| 1:46.2 | But yeah, I mean, the last, you know, someone's got to be last. |
| 1:49.0 | It's just how it goes. |
| 1:50.4 | The last in 2020 entering the 2025 season is vastly different from the last entering like the 2020, even the 21 season. |
| 1:59.6 | Maybe you could throw 2022 that good year in there for Brett |
| 2:03.6 | Biel and so being last inspector of some position has got to be there, but I still don't think |
| 2:08.2 | it's some glaring hole. I think that's really the best way for me to think about it. It's just |
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