{"id":51976,"date":"2025-07-09T17:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/51976\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:45:09","slug":"iowa-hawkeyes-trio-named-among-big-tens-top-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/51976\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Hawkeyes Trio Named Among Big Ten&#8217;s Top Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ov1b8cw4i\">The 2025 college football season is creeping closer and there are many ways to get yourself to kickoff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_buz6c859j\">Major ways include checking out where your team or favorite players rank on latest projections for the upcoming season. Recently, <a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_1fly2ec\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6477875\/2025\/07\/08\/big-ten-best-players-top-25-jeremiah-smith-drew-allar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Athletic<\/a> put together a list of the Top 25 players in the Big Ten for 2025 and the <a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_1fly2ec\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/iowa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iowa Hawkeyes<\/a> were well-represented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_8ucq47nb2\">Iowa saw three players make the list. Gennings Dunker led the way at No. 8 while Aaron Graves and Logan Jones followed at No. 23 and 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_c5nhz64et\">Dunker has been pegged as one of the top offensive lineman in the conference with All-American potential.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-mm-id=\"_demv4i1tr\" class=\"wrapper_u4dip4-o_O-style_6s3kpz\">\n<p class=\"text_1c7yuw-o_O-tagStyle_12j16kw\">&#8220;He doesn\u2019t wear gloves, shops for his clothes at thrift stores and squats close to 700 pounds. The 6-5, 316-pound senior is everything you love about gritty right tackles. He\u2019s started 25 games in his career, including 11 last season on the way to a second-team All-Big Ten selection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0Manny Navarro, The Athletic<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_76x0b7pzi\">Graves took a big step as a junior where he posted six sacks and eight tackles for loss. He was named Preseason First Team All-Big Ten by Phil Steele as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_5n85prbkc\">&#8220;The 6-4, 300-pound homegrown senior started all 13 games for the Hawkeyes last season, tallying 33 tackles, eight TFLs, six sacks and three forced fumbles,&#8221; Navarro wrote. &#8220;He\u2019s considered one of the best interior pass rushers in the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_q5f6motm1\">The list ended with Jones taking the penultimate spot. Jones was named First Team All-Big Ten by the media last season. He joins Dunker along a Hawkeye offensive line that is expected to be among the best in the conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 college football season is creeping closer and there are many ways to get yourself to kickoff.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-51976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114824526144093631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}