Hawk Central: Iowa football position groups ranked, from best to worst

About this episode

Chad Leistikow and Tyler Tachman rank Iowa football's position groups after spring practices, highlighting strengths and weaknesses.

Coming out of Iowa's spring football practices, the Register's Chad Leistikow and Tyler Tachman rank the team's position groups, one through nine, to provide context about where the 2026 Hawkeyes should be strong and where they could suffer. Chad and Tyler have completely different rankings 1 through 4, but then become more aligned when getting to the team's biggest weaknesses.

People in this episode

Hosts: Chad Leistikow, Tyler Tachman

Topics covered

• Iowa football
• position group rankings
• spring practices
• team strengths
• team weaknesses

Keywords

• Iowa football
• position groups
• rankings
• spring practices
• Hawkeyes

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Organizations: Iowa

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