Gronowski said he “could have kept playing through” his shoulder injury, but surgery “was best for my future.”
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Gronowski said he “could have kept playing through” his shoulder injury, but surgery “was best for my future.”
Iowa two-sport athlete Ben Kueter will undergo hip surgery and miss the 2025 football season, his mother Tina said Thursday evening in a Facebook post.
The former four-star recruit did not see any game action in his one season with the Hawkeyes.
Central Michigan transfer Jonah Pace doesn’t see himself as a “flashy” guy, but he could “bring an edge” to the Hawkeyes’ pass rush in 2025.
Iowa football offered a brief glimpse of the 2025 team on Thursday as the first 20 minutes of practice was open to media. Here are some of the highlights from that portion of practice along with player interviews afterward.
Iowa officials expressed a desire to be “fiscally responsible in every way” ahead of fully participating in direct revenue sharing with athletes when it becomes permissible in 2025-26.
Iowa football’s roster is “pretty much where we need it to be right now,” Kirk Ferentz said, as FBS teams need to cap their rosters at 105 players for the 2025 season.
The Hawkeyes are continuing to hold an open spring practice as several programs across the country either discontinue or modify theirs.
Iowa’s productive linebacker duo from the previous two seasons has not received much pre-draft hype, but Nick Jackson is quick to point out that “the tape is the tape.”
Kirk Ferentz appreciates former Wake Forest offensive coordinator (and current Iowa senior offensive analyst) Warren Ruggiero’s “wealth and depth of experience.”
Iowa quarterback Mark Gronowski’s recovery from surgery is “probably a little bit ahead” of schedule, head coach Kirk Ferentz said Wednesday in his spring press conference, but the Hawkeyes will “play it conservatively.”
Brendan Sullivan is officially listed as Iowa’s QB1 going into spring practices, but that is not necessarily an indication of what the position will look like in the fall.
Linebacker and cornerback are among the positions to watch in spring practices — a time of year that Kirk Ferentz has previously described as a “deliberate teaching time.”
University of Iowa rebounded with a dual victory at Nebraska. Iowa State returned to Humboldt to cap 2-0 weekend. Coe, Luther competed at the American Rivers Conference duals and assorted high school results in the Wrestling Weekend That Was.
Women’s basketball: One of the most accurate long-distance shooters in program history, McCabe was injured in the Hawkeyes’ win over Ohio State on Sunday. She’ll miss the remainder of the season with a torn ACL.
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