"My parents and I will be heading to Minnesota this weekend from Saturday until Monday," 2021 Illinois tight end Jameson Geers said to GopherIllustrated. "The Gophers have been telling me I am one of their top guys they want. I got to talk with Coach Sanford and they said they are going to use their tight ends in their offense. I bet I will get to talk more with them when I come up next weekend. I know that Minnesota head coach PJ Fleck, OC Mike Sanford and my recruiting coach Brian Callahan came by the school last week. They said they were able to talk with my head coach for a while. They also said they were really excited to get me back up this weekend. I bumped into them briefly about maybe getting with the academic department and talk about things."

"I have a former teammate at the school in Mariano Sori-Marin and he came into the school last week," Geers told 247Sports. "I congratulated him on an amazing season. He talked about how the coaching is just different than other programs. He said Minnesota connects with their players, plus Fleck and his staff really build a connection with their players. My relationship with tight ends coach Clay Patterson is great. I got to talk with him many times and he got to coach me a little over the summer at camp."

Geers doesn't have any other visits planned after this trip to the Twin Cities.

"Coming into this Minnesota visit, they are my top of my considerations. I believe they are building something special up there and I got to see it many times on my visits to Minnesota. I've seen most of the things at Minnesota, but the thing I'm looking forward most to see this weekend is the coaching staff with the new changes. I want to see if it feels any different. I have nothing planned so far after this visit."