{"id":757828,"date":"2026-04-28T01:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/757828\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T01:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:08:13","slug":"illini-offer-intriguing-for-2027-california-qb-dane-weber-illinois-is-extremely-entertaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/757828\/","title":{"rendered":"Illini offer intriguing for 2027 California QB Dane Weber: &#8216;Illinois is extremely entertaining&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/illinois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Illinois<\/a><\/b> is looking to replace <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/kamden-lopati-46148735\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kamden Lopati<\/a><\/b> in the Class of 2027. After the Composite four-star <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/utah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Utah<\/a><\/b> prospect flipped his commitment from Illinois to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/michigan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michigan<\/a><\/b> earlier this month, the Illinois staff has been back on the recruiting trail in an attempt to add a talented passer in the class.<\/p>\n<p>The Illini on Monday made their first scholarship offer since Lopati&#8217;s decommitment, with quarterbacks coach <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Coach\/art-sitkowski-5350\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Art Sitkowski<\/a><\/b> extending an offer to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">California<\/a><\/b> quarterback <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/dane-weber-46155270\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dane Weber<\/a><\/b> after watching him throw live.<\/p>\n<p>247Sports ranks the 6-foot-2, 210-pound Temecula (Calif.) Chaparral junior as the No. 31 quarterback in the Class of 2027, and Weber is the No. 461 overall prospect nationally, according to the Composite rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes, Illinois is looking to replace Kamden Lopati in the Class of 2027. After the Composite four-star Utah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":757829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-757828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116479662948035875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}