Most of the talk about the Illinois defensive line is geared toward 2024, but we did have Jamal Woods land with a team for the 2023 season.
Woods was thrown into a starting job from day one with the Illini. He was an All-Freshman honorable mention in the Big Ten in 2017, and he would continue to work on his craft from that point on. Woods didn’t have the accolades that many others had, but he was a big part of the reason Illinois won eight games in 2022.
For his career, Woods would amass 79.