Hawkeye Report Podcast 809

The Iowa football season is rapidly approaching and that means we have plenty to discuss on the Hawkeye Report Podcast. Tom Kakert and Matt Randazzo have a lot of ground to cover. We start with the strange world of college athletics today with the news today that a former Ole Miss player who is with the Cleveland Browns is now likely headed to play at LSU this season. How does that impact Iowa? Well, there is a door open for players to go from the NFL back to college, if they have a fifth year left. Who could that impact that played at Iowa last year and would they be interested? 

Then we talk about the race to be the starting quarterback at Iowa. It's getting very close to the start of the season and will it be Hank Brown or Jeremy Hecklinski? Could we see one of the two lock up the job or are we headed towards both players seeing action in a rotation in the season opening game against Northern Illinois? We dive into the race. 

After that we look at the Iowa defense and go over some interesting pass interception numbers from the last decade and also pass breakup numbers. Does it tell us anything beyond just being numbers? Are we concern that this might be the year where Phil Parker's defense struggles? Or is it simply in Phil we Trust once again this year? 

Then we discuss the latest with regard to Iowa's special teams. Who wins the kicker and punter jobs this year for Iowa?

Finally we wrap up our show discussing the interesting recruitment of Iowa's top point guard target in the Class of 2027, five star prospect Cayden Daughtry. In July he said he was going to announce a list of schools and visits. None of that has taken place. Should that be considered a good sign for Iowa?