HAWKEYES NEED A PORTAL QB: Iowa Spring Practice Takeaways

#Iowa football held their open spring practice on Saturday in Kinnick Stadium. Eliot, Adam and Ross share their takeaways from the day.
The #Hawkeyes need a #TransferPortal quarterback in the worst way, the wide receiver room isn't much better, the OL has shown flashes of improvement plus they add Cade Borud from North Dakota, the defense is still elite, and more.
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[@stevengarrison8107]

So all of you repeated over and over and over that we need another QB. No kidding. Now how about naming a few options? All you did is waste time by endlessly stating the obvious. Is that good podcasting? Wow. Don't just talk to hear your own voice. Be productive.

[@richarddodge9592]

Cade McNamara is injury prone and will never return to his heights achieved at Michigan in 2021. A bad strategy to presume he will resurrect the Iowa program.

[@Meishach2112]

Lester’s biggest challenge is going to be rebuilding the QB and WR rooms over the next few seasons. Worried about this year, bigly.

[@jeffreypierce1440]

Receivers look fine and QB is a struggle for every team.

[@adamealey8802]

Ok so all u wanna be coaches imma tell you right now all of you gonna be silent when fall hits Lester hasn’t even let anything out he’s not stupid they treated it like a normal practice why showcase ur strengths on offense…. If Iowa look competent on offense everyone would want to dial into them

[@ScottAllison-qe1df]

Hill transfer from Wisconsin a quarterback he sucks sending back to Wisconsin

[@richarddodge9592]

I can't believe the Iowa coaches continue to chose Deacon Hill as their quarterback!!! Deacon Hill is not even a Division I (One) talent.

[@ripted640]

I have not seen much info on the scheme Iowa is running now. We know that our QB situation is crap. But I want to hear did they run RPO. What about the movement presnap?Is this scheme giving our RBs more room to operate. Are we throwing more to RB out of the backfield?

[@KevinMDowney]

Where’s Marco lainez in all this?

[@Cooked79]

Deacon Hill enters the transfer portal! Now what?

[@matthewboyle2826]

I'm praying and lighting a candle for a QB.

[@jeffreypierce1440]

Marco could get it done if needed. He didn't look bad at all.

[@scottmaass4329]

Thinking back to last year when Wiscy put in a new offense and i think everyone was saying how TERRIBLE they looked at spring. Sounds like Iowa is looking better than that maybe??? Just something to kinda compare to.

[@jeffreypierce1440]

They looked pretty good overall.

[@Etalicus]

Well if your thinking we will pick up a QB we wont nothing KF tells me he going to do this he made his bed with Cade and Hill. To Bad Marco isn't getting the passing down lets move him to a spot we can use his feet. Stop not using players that have good quickness

[@jon6084]

Really excited about the Borud commitment. IOL wasn’t the biggest of needs for this fall. But he’s a veryyy physical football player, which imo Iowa has lacked lately. Has flexibility with positions and moves great for his size. Good pickup for the future

[@galensankey7840]

I guess you answered your question if they can’t get a qb better than the ones they have why go get another Devon Hill that’s how you make it sound

[@jeffreypierce1440]

I saw 6 receivers that looked good. 20, 17 and 84 all looked good.

[@patrickoconnell59]

If Iowa lands a good portal QB, all the issues will immediately improve. A left tackle and another WR would be helpful too, but a QB is what Iowa needs. If Cade ends up being that guy, great. But the whole season depends upon a competent QB. Neither of the healthy QBs look competent to me.

[@blankname6629]

You mean our Michigan warning about Cade still has not sunk in?

[@jeffreypierce1440]

Hill looked the same. Marco looked passable for spring ball.