
He has a chance to make an impact on a program, and I hope he can find his calling in the game of football. Nebraska leads the all-time series with Illinois 30-8-1, including 17-3 in the John Cook era.-The Huskers have won five straight in the series dating back to 2018, and tonight was their third straight sweep of UI.-NU has a 12-3 advantage over Illinois at home, including 5-2 at the Devaney Center. Noah Vedral threw for 138 yards and rushed for a touchdown to lead Rutgers past Illinois 20-14 on Saturday. With two years of eligibility remaining, Smith is now looking for a new home. Rutgers edges Illinois 20-14 for its first Big Ten win. He then spent the 2021 season with the Illini where he saw action in three games and recorded three tackles. He was with the Crimson Tide for three years but didn’t get much playing time. Smith transferred into the Illinois program from Alabama. This one doesn’t come as a huge surprise, but the stay was short for the former high school standout.Ģ018 3-star DB Eddie Smith, who signed with Alabama before transferring to Illinois, has re-entered the portal as a grad transfer The other Illinois football player to hit the transfer portal is Eddie Smith. This kid stuck with the Illini through thick and thin, so I wish him nothing but the best. He is looking to make a mark in the secondary with a new program. Smith is transferring as a graduate student. Without further ado, here is the latest data according to the U.S. And, we should add: bean-counting at the college level is always tricky because accounting practices are not standard across the industry. He started on offense and then moved to defense where he would play both cornerback and safety for the Illini. The data below covers Fiscal Year 2018, running from Jthrough June 30, 2019. Throughout his career with the Illini, Smith was moved around multiple areas of the fields. CHAMPAIGN, Illinois Illinois coach Bret Bielema has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss his team’s game at No. 3, 2018, on the University of Illinois campus in Champaign. Smith was one of the first commitments from the previous coaching regime. The University of Illinois coach speaks to the media Saturday after the Illini fell to the Wisconsin Badgers 24-0 at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Il. Illinois beat Minnesota 55-31 during an NCAA college football game at Memorial Stadium Saturday, Nov. He was a solid top 1000 recruiting coming out of Bolingbrook High School in 2017. The first player to announce his intentions to transfer is Kendall Smith. Shockingly, since the season ended, only two players have hit the transfer portal from the Illinois football program. Illinois football hasn’t dealt with too many transfers just yet. With Bret Bielema taking over the program in the winter of 2020, it wouldn’t shock me to see quite a few players transfer out and look for new horizons.

The Illini have traditionally been a heavy transfer program in and out.
