This former Iowa Hawkeyes standout has become one of the most unexpected stars in the NFL during his time with the Los Angeles Rams.
vaulting himself to become the consensus top tight end in the draft. Both players have unique skillsets, and with the emergence of fellow Hawkeye, George Kittle, at the NFL level this past season, the comparison has begun between the trio of former Iowa tight ...
There's another tie to the NFL, too: One of Iowa's graduate assistants, and a guy who works with the tight ends, is D.J. Hernandez, the brother of former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. D.J. Hernandez spoke to the players about his brother's arrest a few days after it ...
Iowa junior tight end Noah Fant, a third-team All-American, is leaving school early to enter the NFL draft and won’t play in the game. He leads the Hawkeyes with seven touchdowns. Ferentz said Fant’s decision is a sign of the times. “You want guys on the bus and on the sideli...
“Just so much poise and confidence in their offense and an understanding what he needs to do," Satterfield said about Becht. "They’ll run the football, they like to run the football, and they're good at it, and they'll utilize their tight ends in a lot of differen...
Quarterback Brock Purdy connected with tight ends Charlie Kolar and Dylan Soehner for the other 39 yards. “When we needed to make plays, and that’s what really good teams do, we made them,” coach Matt Campbell said. Iowa State trailed 20-16 early in the fourth quarter after a bad...
Jim Marshall is widely recognized as one of the best defensive ends in Minnesota Vikings history. Marshall is also infamous for one of the biggest blunders in NFL history. On Oct. 25, 1964, the Vikings were playing the 49ers and Jim Marshall recovered the ball on a fumble. Marshall then ...
George Kittle has become one of the best tight ends in the NFL over the past two seasons. As the 49ers star was busy breaking records in 2018, many people probably found themselves wondering: Where the hell did this guy come from?
Just in case Kittle's clever bit caused any confusion for the casual fans: He went to Iowa, the hard-nosed program that has proudly been producing NFL tight ends in the heartland of America as well as any college team around. The Hawkeyes have practically built their scheme around...
Iowa even produced two NFL Hall of Famers, Marshall Goldberg and Nile Kinnick. Despite Iowa’s small population, the state has had a sizeable number of successful football players to play in the NFL. From the first Hawkeye to be drafted in 1920, to the most recent players to join the pr...