NFL draft
IllinoisFighting Illini
The last 5 drafts, newest on the right. A draft year runs one behind its football season — the 2026 draft is the 2025 team.
Selections per draft
4 across 5 draftsCounted from zero, so the height of a point is its share of this team's best draft here.
Selections by position
4 across 2017–2021Color is the side of the ball; each segment is a position group. Offense 2 · Defense 2.
2017
2016 Lovie Smith
1 selection
- 3-04Dawaune Smoot—No recruiting profile foundDefensive End
2018
2017 Lovie Smith
0 selections
No selections.
2019
2018 Lovie Smith
1 selection
- 7-02Nick Allegretti—No recruiting profile foundCenter
2020
2019 Lovie Smith
0 selections
No selections.
2021
2020 Lovie Smith, then Rod Smith
2 selections
- 3-24Kendrick Green—No recruiting profile foundCenter
- 5-23Nate Hobbs33-star recruitCornerback
Stars are the player's recruiting rating, matched back to his high-school profile by athlete id — not a draft grade. Only 1 of 4 picks in this range could be matched: CFBD's links between draft picks and recruiting profiles thin out before the 2013 draft and are absent before 2009, so an em dash here usually means the link is missing rather than that the player was unrated.