{"id":786573,"date":"2026-05-10T13:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/786573\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T13:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:02:13","slug":"what-it-means-three-star-2027-in-state-ol-mason-halliman-commits-to-illini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/786573\/","title":{"rendered":"What it means: Three-star 2027 in-state OL Mason Halliman commits to Illini"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, that’s a relief.<\/b> Three-star Lincoln-Way East offensive lineman Mason Halliman<\/a><\/b>‘s commitment<\/a> is welcome good news for Illinois<\/a><\/b> football recruiting, which hadn’t had a commitment in two months and had experienced some tough losses during the last month,\u00a0including Composite four-star quarterback Kamden Lopati<\/a><\/b> flipping his commitment from Illinois to Michigan<\/a><\/b>, some key targets committing elsewhere and some top in-state targets all but eliminating Illinois from consideration.<\/p>\n

But Halliman is a big Big Ten win who shows that, no, Illinois football recruiting is not in shambles. Rather, the Illini still are drawing a lot of very talented recruits to campus and are still very capable of landing high-quality prep prospects.<\/p>\n

Of course, even if the prep class is just 12-18 players in this class and prep recruiting prices are rising significantly, as Bret Bielema<\/a><\/b> said last week<\/a>, the Illini still have a lot of work to do in the next few months to set a fuller foundation in the Class of 2027 and stack another high-quality class on top of the program’s highest-rated class (2026<\/a>) in more than a decade and a half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, that’s a relief. Three-star Lincoln-Way East offensive lineman Mason Halliman‘s commitment is welcome good news for Illinois…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":786574,"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-786573","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\/116550418227897303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786573","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=786573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}