Former Illini Kendrick Green ready for NFL Draft: “I’ve been working for this my whole life”

Green is projected to be just the third Illinois player drafted since 2016, last in the Big Ten in that time.

“It’s not like college where you are kind of in control getting recruited and scouted by these teams,” Imatorbhebhe said.

Yet when the Peoria native reflects on his career and time as an Illini, he says he wouldn’t have believed he would have made it this far.

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