
The top Class of 2023 prospect in Illinois hasn’t been playing the sport all that long.
Simeon’s Malik Elzy is an elite two-way player as a receiver and defensive back with the size — 6-foot-3, 198 pounds — and speed to attract more than two dozen Division I scholarship offers. Among them: Notre Dame, Cincinnati, Illinois and seven other Big Ten teams, and four SEC programs (Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and Vanderbilt).