2025 Football Roster
Jersey Number 29
TJ Griffin
- Position:
- LB
- Class:
- Junior
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 220
- Major:
- Organizational & Community Leadership
- Hometown:
- Hickory Hills, Ill.
- High School:
- Amos Alonzo Stagg
2025 Junior
- Academic All-Big Ten
- Played in six games, primarily on special teams
2024 Sophomore
- Academic All-Big Ten
- Played in two games, primarily on special teams
2023 Redshirt Freshman
- Big Ten Distinguished Scholar
- Academic All-Big Ten
- Did not play in a game
- Illinois SAAC representative
2022 Freshman
- Did not play in a game and redshirted the season
High School
- Three-star recruit by 247Sports and On3, two-star recruit by Rivals
- Position ranks: #128 (247)
- State ranks: #37 (247)
- Played for head coach Colt Nero at Amos Alonzo Stagg
- Two-year letterwinner
- 2021 Illinois High School Football Coaches Association 8A All-State first team
- Stagg record holder for season receiving yards and career receiving yards
- 2021 All-State Academic Team
- NFF Scholar-Athlete Award
- Student Council
- Played three seasons of varsity basketball
- Also played volleyball as a freshman
- Student Council member
- Moraine Valley Business Skills Competition third-place finisher
Personal
- Born March 8, 2004
- Son of Timothy Griffin and Kimberly McGraw
- Mother played college basketball at Moraine Valley Community College
- One brother and one sister on his mother’s side, Jaiden and McKenzie, and two brothers and one sister on his father’s side, Justice, Gavin, and Mia
- Chose Illinois because, “Illinois is my home. They were the only school who reached out to me and the only school I would want to have reached out to me. There’s nothing better than being with people who see and work for the best in you and that is exactly what Illinois is all about. Getting the best out of me and turning me into the man I wish to be.”
- Majoring in organizational and community leadership
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