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One week after Iowa football was unranked in the USA Today Preseason Coaches Poll, they are also unranked in the Associated Press preseason poll. This is the first time in four seasons that the Hawkeyes won't appear in the AP's preseason Top 25. Dating back to 2020, Iowa had been ranked in 21 consecutive weeks of the AP poll (last five of 2020, all 16 last season and finished No. 23 last season). Within the Big Ten, Iowa was picked to finish second in the Big Ten West behind Wisconsin (which checked in at No. 18) during Big Ten media days. The Hawkeyes return an impressive collection of talent on defense highlighted by preseason All Americans Jack Campbell and Riley Moss.

Last Friday, coach Kirk Ferentz expressed his feelings on preseason polls at the team's media day. "I think you guys know how I feel about preseason polls," Ferentz said. "You talk about a waste of time, with all due respect. The bottom line is what's really important is where you are in January. That's still all that counts. Those polls really don't start, I don't think getting it right until probably November, somewhere in there. But it's all about - like it's a long season, and, yeah, right now it's just about us trying to get ready for South Dakota State. That will be a challenge." - Iowa City Press-Citizen

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ILB Jack Campbell, Iowa
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08/15/22 - Tory Taylor, Sr/2024, Iowa, 6-4, 223 (DS#1 P) + More +

About two weeks ago, Tory Taylor was brought to tears when one of his Iowa football teammates donated $6,000 toward his campaign to help raise money for "Count the Kicks," a stillbirth prevention awareness organization started by five Des Moines-area women. That teammate: Hawkeyes starting quarterback Spencer Petras. Though the donation is publicly visible online, Petras didn't make a big deal about it. He reached out to Taylor ahead of time to tell him about his intent, and the star Hawkeye punter was blown away. "Spencer's one of the kindest and most generous guys on the team. I'll try not to get emotional talking about it," Taylor said during Iowa football's media day on Friday afternoon. "But when he sent that $6,000 to my pledge and the charity, it really made me appreciate him more as a person."

Here's how the donation and the campaign came about: Keith Duncan, a former consensus all-America placekicker for the Hawkeyes, recently helped launch a campaign called "Every Kick Counts," which benefits "Count the Kicks." In "Every Kick Counts," kickers and punters can sign up with the goal of obtaining pledges and supporters. For example, if a person signs up to support Taylor, he/she would donate $1 for every 40-yard punt and $3 for every punt downed inside the 20-yard line. For kickers, an extra point is worth $1 and field goals $3. Or a person could make a blanket donation. And that's what Petras did. - Iowa City Press-Citizen

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P Tory Taylor, Iowa
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08/14/22 - Erick All, rSr/2024, Iowa, 6-4, 252 (DS#11 TE) + More +

This is the time of year for some blustery talk from college football coaches in the weeks leading to the start of the season. You know it when you hear it and chalk it up to coachspeak. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh has been known to use a few superlatives here and there in describing players and coaches and sometimes has gone over the top talking up the prospects of a player who then never gets on the field. During Big Ten media days last month, Harbaugh spoke highly of tight ends Erick All and Luke Schoonmaker, and this felt like real talk based on their performances last season. All had 38 catches for 437 yards and two touchdowns, including the winning 47-yard score at Penn State despite running on a bum ankle.

Schoonmaker had 17 catches for 165 yards and three touchdowns. Schoonmaker (6-foot-6, 250 pounds) and All (6-5, 260) were All-Big Ten honorable mention selections for their play during the 2021 season. They are both on the preseason watch list for the Mackey Award, which is given to the nation's most outstanding tight end. Jake Butt won the Mackey in 2016 and is the only Michigan player to do so, but Harbaugh believes he has two tight ends capable of being the nation's best. "Erick All, in my opinion, his biggest competition for being the best tight end in the country will be Luke Schoonmaker. And I think Luke Schoonmaker's toughest competition to be the best tight end in America will be Erick All," Harbaugh said at media days. - Detroit News

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TE Erick All, Iowa
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08/12/22 - Jack Campbell, rJr/2023, Iowa, 6-5, 249 (DS#1 ILB) + More +

2022 PRESEASON ALLSTATE AFCA GOOD WORKS TEAM NOMINEE: Jack Campbell, University of Iowa,...Ranked second in the Big Ten with 143 tackles...143 tackles ranks fifth best in a single season at Iowa and rank as most in a season since 2009 (LB Pat Angerer, 145)...14 tackles in Citrus Bowl tie as fourth best total in Citrus Bowl history...recorded double figures in tackles in five games...one of 10 juniors named to 2021 Player Council...one of seven sophomores named to 2020 Leadership Group...one of eight true freshmen to see action in 2019...three-time Dean's List student (2021 spring, 2021 fall, 2022 spring). - Iowa Football

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ILB Jack Campbell, Iowa
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08/12/22 - Sam LaPorta, Sr/2023, Iowa, 6-3, 245 (DS#5 TE) + More +

2022 PRESEASON ROTARY LOMBARDI AWARD WATCHLIST: Sam LaPorta, Iowa, Sr TE,...LaPorta was voted second-team All-Big Ten by Phil Steele and third-team by league coaches in 2021. As a junior, LaPorta led the Hawkeyes in catches and yards, hauling in 53 receptions for 670 yards and three touchdowns. The Hawkeye tight end has been named to the Athlon Sports 2022 preseason All-Big Ten First Team, and third team on Phil Steele’s preseason All-America Team. He was also named to the 2022 John Mackey Award Watch List. - Iowa Football

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TE Sam LaPorta, Iowa
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08/12/22 - Jack Campbell, rJr/2023, Iowa, 6-5, 249 (DS#1 ILB) + More +

2022 PRESEASON ROTARY LOMBARDI AWARD WATCHLIST: Jack Campbell, Iowa, Sr LB,...Campbell was a second-team All-American by the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) and Phil Steele in 2021. In addition, he earned first-team All-Big Ten honors and was second in the Big Ten with 143 tackles - the fifth-most ever in a single season at Iowa. He earned Bronko Nagurski National Defensive Player of the Week and Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week honors following a career best performance with 18 tackles in Iowa’s 24-14 win over Colorado State. - Iowa Football

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ILB Jack Campbell, Iowa
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08/05/22 - Brody Brecht, rSo/2026, Iowa, 6-3, 217 (DS#999 WR) + More +

Iowa's wide receiving corps were already thin entering fall camp and during Big Ten media days Ferentz revealed the room took another blow with junior Jackson Ritter missing the 2022 season to injury. A group of three sophomore receivers can mitigate low numbers with a strong step forward: Brody Brecht, Arland Bruce IV and Keagan Johnson. Bruce and Johnson are the more accomplished of the three, playing big roles in Iowa's offense down the stretch of last season. Now, there's been a shift in mentality as they prepare to become go-to options and the top of opponents' scouting reports beginning week one of the season.

The most intrigue lies with Brecht, Iowa's two-sport athlete who could join the receivers in having a big part of Iowa's 2022 offensive plans. Brecht was a summer enrollee last year but broke his thumb during a blocking drill in August camp. Those factors set back his football development in 2021 and he took a redshirt. During spring he balanced baseball and football, practicing with the football team on non-baseball gamedays and attending every meeting. The hope for Iowa's coaching staff is Brecht (listed at 6-foot-4 and 205 pounds stays healthy this August and emerges as a viable candidate for the "X", or outside, receiver position. Doing so would give Iowa the big-bodied target) that they missed last season and allow for Bruce and Johnson to be even more position-flexible in Iowa's offense. - Iowa City Press-Citizen

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WR Brody Brecht, Iowa
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08/05/22 - Mason Richman, rSr/2025, Iowa, 6-5, 307 (DS#27 OT) + More +

No position group dealt with the confluence of injuries, attrition and inexperience quite as much as the offensive line last year. Last summer, it appeared Iowa might have the best interior line nationally with center Tyler Linderbaum starting alongside guards Kyler Schott and Cody Ince. Schott then broke his foot jumping off a hay baler one week before preseason camp, and injuries hampered Ince so badly that he chose to retire this offseason. Linderbaum, of course, won the Rimington Award as the nation's top center and was an Outland Trophy finalist. Last fall, the Hawkeyes plugged in redshirt freshman Mason Richman at left tackle and Connor Colby set the program mark for starts by a true freshman lineman with 11 at right guard.

Right tackle constantly was in flux between Jack Plumb and Nick DeJong. The shuffling hampered the running game until the Citrus Bowl, when the Hawkeyes rushed for a season-best 5.8 yards per carry and 175 yards. "We were hanging on up front with Cody out, and you got Shooter in and out," Kirk Ferentz said. "I think we're really a different group, and I thought … the most improvement we made as a team probably was up front on both sides by November. We can always get better, but I think we're on the right path." Richman and Colby - now sophomores - are borderline fixtures at their current spots. - The Athletic

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OT Mason Richman, Iowa
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08/04/22 - Mark Gronowski, rSr/2026, Iowa, 6-2, 230 (DS#11 QB) + More +

2022 PRESEASON MISSOURI VALLEY FOOTBALL SECOND TEAM (COACHES/MEDIA): QB Mark Gronowski, South Dakota State,...The lone second-team honor received by a Jackrabbit player went to quarterback Mark Gronowski. A sophomore from Naperville, Illinois, Gronowski helped lead SDSU to the FCS national title game during the 2020-21 spring season, but sat out last fall due to injury. In his first season in the lineup, Gronowski completed 57.4 percent (108-of-188) of his passes for 1,565 yards and 15 touchdowns, while adding another 577 yards (7.0 ypc) and seven touchdowns on the ground. - South Dakota State Football

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QB Mark Gronowski, Iowa
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08/04/22 - Riley Moss, Sr/2023, Iowa, 6-1, 193 (DS#19 CB) + More +

2022 PRESEASON CHUCK BEDNARIK AWARD WATCH LIST: Riley Moss, Iowa, Senior CB,...Moss (6-1, 193 pounds) was a first-team All-America selection by Sporting News a season ago and was voted the Tatum-Woodson Big Ten Defensive Back of the Year. Additionally, Moss was a first-team All-Big Ten selection by both league coaches and media. The Ankeny, Iowa, native was a recipient of Iowa's Team Hustle Award and is second all-time at Iowa in career interception return yards (239). Moss is one of three players in program history with three interception return touchdowns. - Iowa Football

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CB Riley Moss, Iowa
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08/04/22 - Nick Jackson, rSr/2025, Iowa, 6-1, 228 (DS#16 ILB) + More +

2022 PRESEASON CHUCK BEDNARIK AWARD WATCH LIST: Nick Jackson, Virginia, Senior LB,...Jackson notched seven double-digit tackle efforts in 2021, with five of those games coming against ACC opponents...ACC's top tackler, with a league-best 117 stops, 54 being solo stops and 63 being assisted...Started all 12 games for the Cavaliers. - Virginia Football

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ILB Nick Jackson, Iowa
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08/04/22 - Jack Campbell, rJr/2023, Iowa, 6-5, 249 (DS#1 ILB) + More +

2022 PRESEASON CHUCK BEDNARIK AWARD WATCH LIST: Jack Campbell, Iowa, Senior LB,...Campbell (6-5, 246 pounds) was a second-team All-American by the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) and Phil Steele in 2021. In addition, he earned first-team All-Big Ten honors and was second in the Big Ten with 143 tackles – the fifth-most ever in a single season at Iowa. He earned Bronko Nagurski National Defensive Player of the Week and Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week honors following a career-best performance with 18 tackles in Iowa's 24-14 win over Colorado State. A native of Cedar Falls, Iowa, Campbell was the recipient of Iowa's Roy Carver Most Valuable Player (Defense) award last season and served as a permanent team captain. - Iowa Football

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ILB Jack Campbell, Iowa
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08/01/22 - Tory Taylor, Sr/2024, Iowa, 6-4, 223 (DS#1 P) + More +

2022 PRESEASON RAY GUY WATCHLIST: Tory Taylor - Iowa,... Taylor is 6-4, 230 pounds and was born in Melbourne, Australia. Does that necessarily mean he is a product of Australian Rules Football. You betch-ya, mate. He was 23 years old as a true freshman in 2020 after being recruited out of Melbourne' ProKick Acadamy. Taylor never saw an American football game in person until he punted in Iowa's season opener at Purdue. He averaged 44.1 yards per kick in 2020. On his Twitter account, Taylor wrote: "Sacrifice a little, chase your dreams, and the opportunities are endless." He is making the most of his opportunity. Last year (2021) he set Iowa single season record for punting yards with 3,688 yards (80 punts, 46.1 average)... ranked fifth in the Big Ten with 46.1 season average...39 of 80 punts inside the 20 in 2021 - Iowa Football

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P Tory Taylor, Iowa
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07/29/22 - Jack Campbell, rJr/2023, Iowa, 6-5, 249 (DS#1 ILB) + More +

Jack Campbell is one of the most unique middle linebackers in Iowa history. He's the polar opposite of program greats at that position like Larry Station or Josey Jewell. Those were undersized-yet-tenacious tacklers. Campbell, meanwhile, is a like a thoroughbred racehorse who packs a thumping wallop. His size and speed at Iowa would compare well to what that Chicago Bears once had in Hall of Famer Brian Urlacher. Urlacher's pro measurements were 6-4, 258. Campbell's pushing 250 on his 6-5 frame. Asked if he has lost any speed while bulking up, Campbell chuckled. "Gosh, no," he said. Early in Campbell's Iowa career, it was debated whether he should be a linebacker or defensive end.

Ferentz initially leaned toward defensive end; Wallace and defensive coordinator Phil Parker advocated for linebacker because of how he runs. Put Campbell on the edge, other teams can run away from him. Put Campbell in the middle of Iowa's defense, opponents can't avoid him. "He could get to 270 pounds. But he's like a defensive lineman playing on the second level," Wallace said. "He has a unique ability to move in space for a guy that size. He's not the guy that Northwestern had a couple years ago (Paddy Fisher). They're comparable size-wise, but Jack's athleticism is through the roof when it comes to guys his size." - Iowa City Press-Citizen

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ILB Jack Campbell, Iowa
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07/28/22 - Logan Jones, rSr/2026, Iowa, 6-3, 293 (DS#3 C) + More +

One of the biggest questions entering 2022 was who would replace Tyler Linderbaum. There's a new No. 65 for the Hawkeyes, sophomore Logan Jones, who will get the first chance at the duty. And he shares many similarities to the 2022 first round NFL draft pick. "He has so many good gifts as far as athletic ability and twitch and tenacity," Iowa offensive line coach George Barnett said of Jones in the spring. "We have to make sure we don't overburden him with, 'Hey, you've got to learn this today.' He's got to continue to play off rhythm and feel. "He knows what he's doing, and he puts his body in really good situations." Jones, like Linderbaum, was a high-level defensive line recruit but an injury last season kept him from playing. Iowa will have a deep defensive line group this season, which is in part a reason for the move.

The two have similar builds as well. Linderbaum was listed last year at 6-foot-3, 290 pounds and Jones measures in at 6-3, 283 pounds. They also both showed record-setting strength. Linderbaum set the squat record at center (590 pounds) in 2019. Jones set two weightlifting records at defensive tackle last spring: squat (630 pounds) and hang clean (435 pounds). Jones' move appeared successful in spring, he was the No. 1 center during Iowa's final spring practice, but noted afterwards how much more progression is needed. "It took me awhile to sort through everything," Jones said. "The steps, the snaps, snap count, the plays and everything else. The other linemen and coach Barnett are helping me out a lot." - Iowa City Press-Citizen

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C Logan Jones, Iowa
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