Iowa Football Adds WR Jacob Gill

[RobHowe]

Northwestern Transfer Joins Brendan Sullivan with Hawkeyes ​

Iowa Football Adds WR Jacob Gill

Northwestern receiver Jacob Gill announced on Tuesday that he was committing to Iowa. It addressed a position of need for the Hawkeyes. Gill (6-0, 190) attende

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[BigD]

Well this now gives Iowa at least a QB and receiver that are familiar with each other and should help with route pass timing.

 

[HawkPhin]

If you transfer his stats from last season he would have been Iowa’s third leading receiver

 

[Teddy]

How many guys has NW lost?

 

[#1DieHardHawk]

Rob, were we involved in his initial recruitment at all? Just curious.

 

[Hawkfnntn]

Well he's a body anyway. It'll be interesting to see how he fits in and where on the depth chart he ends up. He kinda gives me Seth Anderson vibes as far as his size and type of receiver he may be.

 

[NorthKCHawk]

This pick-up is certainly not a wow portal guy, but probably about the best we can hope for given the present circumstance and view of the offense. A veteran guy with decent experience in the Big10 in a comparably bad offensive scheme that has some relationship to one of our possible starting QBs. As others have said, he is at least a practice depth guy and probably a plug and play guy in the rotation. This is the type of guy you hope one of the incoming freshmen eventually surpasses on the depth chart.

I will again say this offseason has gone much better than I thought. We retained nearly everyone not going pro on an elite defense and added non-flashy, but quality depth in the places we needed depth on offense. Very clean and productive offseason. Very Iowa.

 

[RobHowe]

Rob, were we involved in his initial recruitment at all? Just curious.

I don't think so. Can't remember the last time Iowa brought in a recruit from North Carolina. Anyone remember one?

 

[Will C]

When you don't have much a body is welcome.

 

[Hawkfnntn]

I don't think so. Can't remember the last time Iowa brought in a recruit from North Carolina. Anyone remember one?

Mr Keith Duncan I believe was does he count?

 

[NorthKCHawk]

Mr Keith Duncan I believe was does he count?

Nice work on that one

 

[Hawkfnntn]

Nice work on that one

I wasn't sure if he'd count since he was a walk on kicker... But only one I could think of without doing any looking

 

[Zstatman]

Isn't our current place kicker from NC?

 

[Teddy]

When you don't have much a body is welcome.

Why do you think we don't have much of a body at non-TE receiver spots? We have no real metric by which to evaluate the receivers. McNamara's completion percentage was like 51.1%-two and a half percent less that Jake Christensen for context and Hill, of course, connected on something in the 40's. There were some drops, especially early in the season, but drops do not account for the exceptionally inaccurate throwing.

They also had an exceptionally poor offense. Other than Ragaini and Anderson, and especially in the first 6 games (or so) the receivers' routes or plays, everyone were so predictable. Wetjen-the fastest player on the team, ran only jet sweeps, a rare screen and a rare reverse. Brown just needed some time, but he too faced the same problem, inaccurate passes and very predictable passing plays/use of receivers.

The offense is almost certain to be more receiver friendly and guys like Brown, Wetjen and Anderson have the speed to make some big plays.

 

[Hawkfnntn]

Isn't our current place kicker from NC?

Stevens is from South Carolina but they do have another kicker as I scroll through the roster from NC named Trip Woody he's a freshman. I wasn't aware of him till now.

 

[SwirlinLingerie]

If you transfer his stats from last season he would have been Iowa’s third leading receiver

He had one catch last season. One.

 

[JoeyLabasForPresident]

He had one catch last season. One.

Holy shit, 1661 receiving YARDS. The things an off-season will make you forget. I’m not picking O/U that line until I see the clown game.

 

[haydensly]

He had one catch last season. One.

I know, not very impressive. But then I saw that he only played four games and was injured for the rest of the year. So, while still not setting the world on fire, not as bad it appears at first glance.

 

[Teddy]

Holy shit, 1661 receiving YARDS. The things an off-season will make you forget. I’m not picking O/U that line until I see the clown game.

Ponder this: Jake C's completion percentage was around 53.8ish. That's higher than any Iowa QB in the last two seasons collectively. Jake's 17 TDs is one more passing TDs than Iowa in the last two seasons, collectively. Jake's TD ratio of 17/6 is of course far superior to everyone collectively, or really anyone in the last two seasons where the total ratio is 16/18. Petras, the only guy playing the most plays, by far, was at least 20/15-3 more TDs that Jake C.'s single starting season and like 150% more interceptions.

That is how truly bad the QB play. Jake C would have been a vast improvement over the last 3 seasons.

 

[NorthKCHawk]

Ponder this: Jake C's completion percentage was around 53.8ish. That's higher than any Iowa QB in the last two seasons collectively. Jake's 17 TDs is one more passing TDs than Iowa in the last two seasons, collectively. Jake's TD ratio of 17/6 is of course far superior to everyone collectively, or really anyone in the last two seasons where the total ratio is 16/18. Petras, the only guy playing the most plays, by far, was at least 20/15-3 more TDs that Jake C.'s single starting season and like 150% more interceptions.

That is how truly bad the QB play. Jake C would have been a vast improvement over the last 3 seasons.

Yep. As outlandish as it is to say, you would absolutely have taken JC as the QB the last two years. He at least could use his feet and was a good leader. We probably don't lose the Minny game last year and win the West in '22 if we only had....gulp...Jake Christensen......