CHAMPAIGN, IL (Scott Richey, Champaign News-Gazette. Please click on the link for the full story. Here is an excerpt below.)
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Illinois’ quarterback Jeff George Jr. (3) in a Big Ten game at Memorial Stadium in Champaign on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017.
Lovie Smith was definitive in his statement early in Monday’s weekly press conference that Illinois was “making a change at the quarterback position.”
Just what that actually meant took a bit more parsing.
In this case, “making a change” has Jeff George Jr. at the top of the depth chart heading into Saturday’s game at Iowa, with true freshman Cam Thomas serving as his backup after serving a one-game suspension. And now demoted starter Chayce Crouch?
“We don’t predict the future an awful lot,” Smith said. “We have a starting rotation. Chayce is not at the top of the list. We’ll start working to see how he fits in from then on.”
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