Following are the fantasy-relevant starting depth charts released by the teams (when available), along with any notes and last year’s stats, for Big Ten teams leading up to their FIRST game of the season.
- Starters on depth chart are listed with occasionally some additional depth, for full charts see posts on twitter as available
- Post will be continually updated prior to team’s first games as their depth charts are updated
- Stats listed are from 2020 (unless noted)
- If a team has not yet released a depth chart the ones listed here are a predicted depth chart including players potentially in the mix to start or be in the rotation
Big Ten Conference Teams (in alphabetical order):
Illinois depth chart (will not release an official prior to the first game, updated postgame):
- QB: Brandon Peters (39/80-429-3, 24/136-1) named the starter, QB2: Art Sitkowski (52/82-444-3, Rutgers)
- RB: Chase Brown announced as starter but was limited (104/540-3), Mike Epstein (39/367-4), Reggie Love (10/12-0), Chase Hayden (16/62-0, East Carolina)
- WRs: Brian Hightower was unavailable (11/209-3), Donny Navarro started (8/88-0), Isaiah Williams started (former QB), Casey Washington (10/106-0), Jafar Armstrong was unavailable (3/38-0), Marquez Beason (hamstring injury)
- TEs: Daniel Barker (19/268-2), Luke Ford (2/15-0)