2025 Football Roster
Jersey Number 87
Tyler McClure
- Position:
- WR
- Class:
- Senior
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 205
- Major:
- Strategic Leadership & Management
- Hometown:
- Champaign, Ill.
- High School:
- Centennial
- Prev School:
- Kaskaskia College
 University of Illinois Graduate |
2025 Senior
- Played in one game
2024 Junior
- Academic All-Big Ten
2023 Sophomore
- Walk-on receiver
- Did not play in a game
2022-23 Redshirt Freshman
- Transferred to Illinois with three seasons of eligibility remaining
- Enrolled at Illinois for the spring semester of 2023
2021-22 Freshman - Kaskaskia College
- Played one season of junior college baseball
- 19 hits, four home runs, and 15 RBIs in 41 games as an outfielder
High School
- Played for head coach Lekevie Johnson at Champaign Centennial
- Also played baseball and basketball
- All-Big 12 baseball player
Personal
- Born Oct. 14, 2002
- Son of Brian and Kelly McClure
- One sister, Anna, and one brother, Luke
- Father, Brian McClure, played baseball at Illinois, ranks No. 9 in Illini history in career home runs with 35, and played seven years in the minor leagues, reaching as high as Triple-A
- Mother, Kelly McClure, played volleyball at Illinois, totaled 756 kills, 803 digs, 257 blocks and 70 service aces in 119 career matches as an outside hitter-turned-middle blocker, and was an All-Big Ten first-team selection in 1996
- Sister, Anna McClure, plays volleyball at Ohio State
- Uncle, Todd McClure, played baseball at Illinois
- Chose Illinois because, "It's a great football program and great academic school that is close to home."
- Graduated from the University of Illinois in May 2025 with a degree in financial planning
- Majoring in strategic leadership & management
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