Iowa quarterback Deuce Hogan enters transfer portal

High-profile recruit appeared in only one game in two seasons with Hawkeyes

Nov. 30, 2021 2:30 pm, Updated: Nov. 30, 2021 2:50 pm

Iowa Hawkeyes quarterback Deuce Hogan (2) throws a practice pass during warm ups before the game against Colorado State at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

IOWA CITY — Iowa quarterback Deuce Hogan is in the transfer portal, Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz confirmed Tuesday.

The third-string quarterback only played in one game in his two years at Iowa, throwing and completing one pass for two yards on Oct. 1 against Maryland.

Hogan was a highly-touted recruit who chose Iowa over several major college football programs, including Georgia, Baylor and Tennessee. Rivals rated him a four-star prospect and the 12th-best quarterback in the 2020 recruiting class.

“He wants to get somewhere where, I think, he feels he has a little better opportunity,” Ferentz said.

The news comes four days after Ferentz joked in a postgame news conference about what it would mean if Hogan had to start the Nebraska game.

“If it was Deuce, with all due respect to Deuce, I might’ve stayed in Iowa City,” Ferentz said on Friday.

Ferentz said Tuesday “in retrospect” he wouldn’t have made that comment after Friday’s game.

“Probably would’ve been more appropriate if I said our third quarterback instead of naming his name,” Ferentz said Tuesday. “I’m not real comfortable with any third quarterback being in the game until they get to work as a one or two.”

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