Ex-Hawkeyes with aches and pains in NFL camps

It isn't easy, that pro football stuff.

Former Iowa Hawkeye defensive lineman Matt Roth has missed several practices with the Miami Dolphins since training camp opened. He has a groin injury and apparently had some sort of illness.

For the Miami Herald's story on Roth, click here.

Ex-Hawkeye safety Bob Sanders, an All-Pro when healthy, isn't. Healthy, that is.

Sanders is currently on the Indianapolis Colts' physically unable to perform list after undergoing knee surgery during the offseason. He is expected to be ready for the start of the regular season on Sept. 13.

“He's making real good progress. We certainly feel he's doing everything he can to get back. He's working extremely hard, he's keeping himself in it mentally, and he's into it in meetings and our practice sessions, doing a little coaching on the side as well,” Colts Coach Jim Caldwell said last week.

“I feel good," Sanders said in this Terre Haute News story. "That's all I really want to say about that. I feel good. My soul is good, and I'm in good spirits. I'm doing all right,” Sanders said.

Another former Iowa safety, Sean Considine, is struggling early with his new team, the Jacksonville Jaguars.

began training camp on the physically unable to perform list because of a strained left calf. Del Rio didn't expect Considine, who sustained the strained calf two weeks ago, to miss significant time.

"It should be minor," said Jaguars Coach Jack Del Rio last week. "He was trying to go, but we just thought it would be best not to."

And former Hawkeye offensive lineman-deluxe Robert Gallery is out for at least the first two weeks of the Oakland Raiders' camp because of an appendectomy.

Here is the Oakland Tribune's story on Gallery's sudden illness.