All business: Crete-Monee’s Lynel Billups-Williams goes for 237 yards and 3 TDs in playoff opener. And his family? ‘Everybody is rooting for me.’

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All business: Crete-Monee’s Lynel Billups-Williams goes for 237 yards and 3 TDs in playoff opener. And his family? ‘Everybody is rooting for me.’

Like many talented high school football players who receive Division I offers, Crete-Monee’s Lynel Billups-Williams has a dream of playing in the NFL.But there is something else the senior receiver wants to accomplish. Billups-Williams, who committed to Miami of Ohio in the summer, has a big goal off the field.“I want to be the first member of the Billups family to graduate from college,” he said. “I want to do that for the family. Everybody is …