{"id":785959,"date":"2026-05-10T06:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/785959\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T06:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:25:24","slug":"illini-offer-2026-juco-dl-joshua-davis-during-official-visit-its-everything-ive-prayed-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/785959\/","title":{"rendered":"Illini offer 2026 JUCO DL Joshua Davis during official visit: &#8216;It&#8217;s everything I&#8217;ve prayed for&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/illinois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Illinois<\/a><\/b> is still looking to boost its depth and competition on the defensive line in its first year under new defensive coordinator <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Coach\/bobby-hauck-5666\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bobby Hauck<\/a><\/b>. So first-year Illini defensive line coach <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247Sports.com\/coach\/Jordan-Thomas-4680\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jordan Thomas<\/a><\/b>\u00a0continued that search during the spring evaluation period \u2014 and may have found some help.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas visited junior college defensive lineman <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247Sports.com\/Player\/Joshua-Davis-46165625\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joshua Davis<\/a><\/b> last week in Mississippi, where he had dinner with Davis and his parents. The Illini quickly invited the Copiah-Lincoln C.C. freshman for an official visit this weekend. With his mother along for the trip, Davis promptly earned a scholarship offer from Illinois head coach <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Coach\/bret-bielema-137\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bret Bielema<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois is the first Power Four offer for Davis, who is a Class of 2026 prospect and could join a college this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illinois is still looking to boost its depth and competition on the defensive line in its first year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":785960,"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-785959","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\/116548857535444631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785959","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=785959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}