Fighting Illini football has lost yet another member of their 2016 recruiting class. Late Friday night, three-star defensive back Drake Spears (Aurora, IL) became the fifth Illinois verbal to decommit from the program in the last week. The West Aurora high school issued the following statement from his Twitter account.
Spears, who's rated as the No. 41 overall prospect from the state of Illinois, committed to former head coach Tim Beckman back in June. Signing Day is fast approaching and it's unclear what Spears plans to do at this point, but his only other recorded scholarship offer at the time of his initial verbal was from Western Michigan.