2025 Football Roster
Jersey Number 28
Dylan Rosiek
- Position:
- LB
- Class:
- Senior
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 235
- Major:
- Health Communication
- Hometown:
- East Lake, Fla.
- High School:
- East Lake
Pronunciation: ROH-zee-ek
 Three-Time All-Big Ten |
 University of Illinois Graduate |
2025 Senior
- Team captain
- All-Big Ten Honorable Mention (coaches and media)
- Seven career forced fumbles, tied for sixth in Illinois career record book
- Played and started in 10 games
- 50 total tackles (26 solo), 3.5 tackles for loss, one forced fumble, one interception, one QB hurry, and four pass breakups on the season
- Despite missing two games, ranked third on the team with 50 total tackles, fifth with 3.5 tackles for loss, and tied for second with four pass breakups
- Six or more tackles in six of 10 games
- Seven tackles (five solo) with a season-high 1.5 tackles for loss in rivalry win vs. Northwestern (11/29/25)
- Six tackles (four solo) with two pass breakups in win vs. Maryland (11/15)
- Seven tackles (three solo) at Washington (10/25/25)
- First-career interception, along with six tackles (three solo) and a PBU in Illini win vs. #21 USC (9/27/25)
- Season-high eight total tackles (five solo) with one tackle for loss at #19 Indiana (9/20/25)
- Six tackles and a QB hurry in win at Duke (9/6/25)
- Athlon Preseason All-Big Ten Third Team
- Phil Steele Preseason All-Big Ten Third Team
2024 Junior
- Team captain
- All-Big Ten Honorable Mention (coaches and media)
- Started first nine games before a season-ending injury
- 10th in the Big Ten in tackles per game (7.0) during the regular season
- 63 tackles (26 solo), 3.0 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks, two forced fumbles, one QB hurry and one pass breakup on the season
- Career-high 12 tackles (three solo) against #24 Michigan (10/19/24)
- Pass breakup and a game-ending sack against Purdue (10/12/24)
- Sixth-career fumble and a game winning sack against #22 Nebraska (9/20/24)
- Named to PFF's Week 1 National Team of the Week
- Fifth-career fumble against EIU (8/29/24)
- Butkus Award watch list
2023 Sophomore
- All-Big Ten Honorable Mention (coaches and media)
- Played in all 12 games with eight starts at linebacker
- Led the Big Ten and tied for third in the nation in forced fumbles (4) during the regular season
- Fourth-most forced fumbles in Illinois single-season history
- 14th in the Big Ten in tackles (82) during the regular season
- Eighth in the Big Ten in tackles during conference games (70) during the regular season
- Led Illinois in tackles (82)
- Recorded a career-high 10 tackles (5 solo) plus two PBUs vs. Nebraska (10/6/23)
- Posted six tackles, including two TFLs, and forced a fumble at Purdue (9/30/23)
- Tied for the team lead with a career-high nine tackles vs. #7 Penn State (9/16/23)
- Tallied eight tackles, all solo, in first-career start vs. Toledo (9/2/23)
2022 Redshirt Freshman
- Played in all 13 games, primarily on special teams
- Eight tackles, 1.0 TFL, and one quarterback hurry on the season
- First career TFL against Chattanooga 9/22/22
2021 Freshman
- Played in three games and redshirted the season
- Illinois victory team MVP against Nebraska 8/28/21
High School
- Three-star recruit by 247Sports and ESPN
- Two-star recruit by Rivals
- Position ranks: #51 (ESPN), #64 (247)
- State ranks: #188 (247), #215 (ESPN)
- Voted team MVP as a junior
- 2018 ATH All-State third team
- Also wrestled in high school
- Committed to Illinois on June 17, 2020
- Offers included Air Force, Army, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale
Personal
- Born Nov. 11, 2002
- Chose Illinois because “I felt that this would put me in the best place to succeed and achieve my dream of playing at the next level.”
- Graduated from the University of Illinois in May 2025 with a degree in Kinesiology
- Majoring in health communication
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