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Illinois Football: Illini offer JUCO running back JD Martin

Snagging players from the junior college level isn’t a bad idea, especially for a program like the Illini who need impact players for 2020. Getting great athletes to come in and help this team is paramount. That is why we are now going after a player like JD Martin.

Martin is a 6-foot, 185-pound athlete from East Central Community College in Wetumpka, Alabama. He isn’t rated or ranked by the recruiting sites this year, but he was on the recruiting sites radar when he was originally coming out of high school.

When Martin was coming out of Wetumpka High School last year, he was rated as a three-star recruit who was the No.