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University of Illinois Athletics

2026 Football Signing Class

Jake Renfro

  • Ht./Wt. 6-4 / 315
  • Position OL
  • Hometown Mokena, Ill.
  • High School Providence Catholic

Biography

2025 Junior (Wisconsin)

  • Missed most of the season due to multiple injuries
  • Played in four games
  • Participated in Big Ten Media Days in Las Vegas
  • Rimington Trophy Watch List

2024 Sophomore (Wisconsin)

  • Started all 12 games at center
  • Allowed only one sack and 10 pressures across 375 pass rushing opportunities, according to PFF
  • 68.9 PFF run blocking grade, tied for the fifth-best mark in the Big Ten
  • Part of an offensive line that allowed the third-fewest sacks and fourth-fewest tackles for loss in the Big Ten

2023 Sophomore (Wisconsin)

  • Redshirted
  • Did not play in a game during the regular season due to injury
  • Started the ReliaQuest Bowl at center

2022 Sophomore (Cincinnati)

  • Missed the 2022 season due to injury

2021 Freshman (Cincinnati)

  • Started 13 of 14 games at center
  • All-American Athletic Conference First Team
  • Led Cincinnati to the College Football Playoff
  • Led the Cincinnati offensive line that paved the way for the nation’s ninth-most yards per play (6.71)
  • Cincinnati finished second in the AAC in yards per rush (5.2)
  • Cincinnati offensive line gave up only 53 tackles for loss, the seventh-fewest in the nation
  • Cincinnati averaged 36.9 points per game to rank second in the AAC and No. 11 in the nation
  • Cincinnati set the program’s single-season records for touchdowns (70) and points (516)

2020 Freshman (Cincinnati)

  • Played in seven games and made six starts at center as a true freshman
  • Cincinnati offensive line was named a semifinalist for the Joe Moore Award
  • Cincinnati averaged an AAC-best 5.6 yards per carry, running for 212.4 yards per game and allowing an AAC-low nine sacks during the regular season

High School 

  • Composite three-star recruit 
  • Played for head coach Mark Coglianese at Providence Catholic
  • CCL/ESCC Green All-Conference
  • First-Team All-Area 22 team on the offensive line
  • Daily Southtown First-Team All-Area
  • IHSA Class 6A All-State Academic Team
  • National Honor Society

Personal

  • Son of Rick and Christine Renfro
  • Father, Rick Renfro, played football at Illinois and was a letterwinner on the 1983 Big Ten championship team that played in the 1984 Rose Bowl Game

Statistics

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