Illinois Football Recruiting: Three-star offensive tackle Trevour Simms commits to Illini

The Fighting Illini have picked up their second verbal commitment of the day. Trevour Simms, a three-star offensive tackle from East Saint Louis, IL (East St. Louis HS) gave his pledge to the coaching staff at a camp on Saturday afternoon. In addition to the Illini, he was also receiving interest from Boston College, Iowa, Iowa State, Louisville, Missouri, and Purdue.

Second commitment of the day for the #illini is East St Louis OL Trevour Simms pic.twitter.com/wvitLKKOFf

— Doug Bucshon (@IllinoisRivals) June 20, 2015

Highlights

Dominic Thieman, a two-star receiver from Florida, also gave a verbal to the coaching staff on Saturday. Combined, this brings the program's total number of 2016 commitments to seven.

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