Trevon Sidney announced on Twitter that he has decided to commit to play football for Lovie Smith and the Illini. He is a graduate transfer from the University of Southern California and will help the Illini immediately. This makes the second USC graduate transfer to commit for Illinois in the last few days. The other transfer the Illini landed was defensive end, Oluwole Betiku Jr.
Coming out of high school, Sidney was rated pretty well. He was a four-star recruit who was the No. 143 player in the class of 2016 and the No.