{"id":39431,"date":"2022-06-06T21:17:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T21:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/illini-land-oklahoma-qb-cal-swanson\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T21:17:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T21:17:11","slug":"illini-land-oklahoma-qb-cal-swanson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/illini-land-oklahoma-qb-cal-swanson\/","title":{"rendered":"Illini land Oklahoma QB Cal Swanson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hudl.com\/embed\/video\/3\/13463508\/619326c102b31b09d4250d2b\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Illinois has found its quarterback in the Class of 2023. A week after earning his first power-five offer from Illinois, Ardmore (Okla.) Quarterback <b>Cal Swanson<\/b> verbally committed to Illinois on Sunday following an official visit to Champaign.  The 6-foot-3, 180-pound Class of 2023 quarterback is the first scholarship quarterback to join Illinois under first-year offensive coordinator \/ quarterbacks coach <b>Barry Lunney Jr.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of a relief. The coaches were really excited. The coaches were really supportive. It&#8217;s a good coaching staff,&#8221; Swanson told Illini Inquirer on Sunday.  &#8220;Me and all the other recruits really just clicked. It&#8217;s kind of like what y&#8217;all say. It really is a family. That&#8217;s really what sold me. It feels great. It really brings out my competitive nature. I really want to go up there and compete for the starting job and win some games. I love it. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Swanson, the son of former Oklahoma safety Lance Swanson, chose from Houston Baptist, Tarleton State and Central Oklahoma.  He has an exciting highlight clip that includes elite escapability out of the pocket, a strong arm and great speed (he ran a 22.10-second 200-meter dash this spring).  Swanson also put up big numbers as a junior, completing 151 of 215 passes (70.2%) for 2,273 yards, 28 touchdowns and two interceptions while rushing for five touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lunney, who grew up in a similar environment as Swanson in Fort Smith (Ark.) And often talks to the Oklahoma kid about fishing, has been in contact with Swanson for several weeks and traveled to Ardmore to evaluate Swanson.  He clearly liked what he saw and thinks Swanson is a good fit for his up-tempo, shotgun offense that is likely to use more of the quarterback in the run game than Illinois did under <span class=\"s1\"><b><b\/><\/b><\/span><b><b>Tony Petersen<\/b><\/b>who ran more of a traditional, under-center offense.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHe really liked that I could extend plays with my feet,\u201d Swanson said.  &#8220;He likes that I&#8217;m a three-sport athlete, and he likes that I can get rid of it fast.  One of his main things he likes about me is I run the 400 in track.  He just thinks it takes some grit and toughness to get through that race.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHe showed me some videos [of his offense] the other day.  It&#8217;s a bunch of quick game with how they run their offense.  Actually, it&#8217;s a lot like my offense that I run at my high school, so I think that&#8217;s where he thought I fit in good. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>What it means: <\/b>Lunney adds his first long-term scholarship prospect to the Illini quarterback room to go along with preferred walk-on <b>Kirkland Michaux<\/b>, a former college baseball player.  While Michaux is a big-bodied, big-armed pocket passer, Swanson is a mobile playmaker who can make a lot of plays with his feet di lui.  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A week after earning his first power-five offer from Illinois, Ardmore (Okla.) Quarterback Cal Swanson verbally committed to Illinois on Sunday following an official visit to Champaign. The 6-foot-3, 180-pound Class of 2023 quarterback is the first scholarship quarterback to join Illinois under first-year &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/illini-land-oklahoma-qb-cal-swanson\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Illini land Oklahoma QB Cal Swanson<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3media.247sports.com\/Uploads\/Assets\/911\/113\/11113911.jpeg?fit=bounds&crop=1200:630,offset-y0.50&width=1200&height=630","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}