A good weekend for Iowa football recruiting

A rough December for Iowa's football program took an upturn this weekend with the apparent verbal commitments of a top high school running backs from Illinois and a receiver from Texas.

Hawkeyeinsider.com and Hawkeyereport.com work this stuff hard and well, so go there for far more extensive details. I'll give you nutshells.

1. Rodney Coe, 6-foot-3, 240-pounds. Running back. Edwardsville, Ill., not far from St. Louis. Coe is one of those four-star guys. I watched a couple videos of him on Youtube, and he looks like he has good balance and speed to go with the power you'd expect from a back his size.

Hawkeyenation.com has some videos of Coe for your viewing right here.

2. Jacob Hillyer, 6-4, 190 pounds. Somerset, Texas, near San Antonio. This year he had 87 catches for 1,648 yards and 18 touchdowns.

"They need a receiver to come in and play their freshman year and they think I'm the guy that can come in and do it," Hillyer told HawkeyeReport in this story.

Hawkeyeinsider.com has

this list of Iowa commitments.