RobHowe
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Kaleb Brown Sitting Out Rest of 2024
Iowa Receiver Intends to Transfer After Season
Kaleb Brown, Leshon Williams Hitting Portal
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So he's gonna go to Purdue and end up being Tyrone Tracy part 2 and in the NFL in a couple yrs? HA. How can anyone blame him? He gave it a go here and it didn't work. First yr he comes in he ends up with freaking Deacon Hill as his QB. Then the OC gets fired. Then he gets his OWI and is off to a slow start with the new OC Lester. If anyone should get a fresh start it's probably him.
JoeyLabasForPresident
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Any intel Rob? One would think he's hitting the portal, right?
Garandx
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Absolutely hitting the portal
MelroseHawkins
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He has announced he will not continue his football career at Iowa and has wished him teammates the best. I believe he really has a problem grasping offenses and his routes. I feel that could have been an issue at Ohio St. as well. I have heard it was a problem at Iowa with running the wrong routes.
Yeah it sounds like he has a bit of a drinking problem too... No idea if this is true or not. But the night of his OWI he ran up quite the bill at the bar according to twitter fingers.
Sounds to me we have a frustrated kid who was promised one thing before he came and that never came to fruition along with a coaching staff who thought they were getting a 4 star stud receiving talent but from their side he hasn't been able to keep his nose clean learn the playbook and run the right routes often enough to be trusted out there. I think a divorce would probably be good for both sides as much as it sucks.
MelroseHawkins
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Agree.
Bordone
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Being fast and being a talented receiver are two very different things. If he can't run the right routes and can't catch balls that hit him in the hands (as displayed last year) Why would you want him on the field over over the two players starting.
Bordone
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He's 4th string on the depth chart will probably go to a mac school or drop a division so he can get playing time.
MelroseHawkins
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Exactly. There are some very good receivers show don't have blazing speed. They may have some acceleration or the ability to shed defenders and get open in space and are effective.
Glass1/2fullguy
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Leshaun a much bigger loss imo. Now that kids are getting paid this is going to continue to be way more common. “If I’m not playing I’m not gonna be getting paid” will be the mindset going forward for many of these kids. I don’t blame them one bit. If I was wrecking my brain for the entertainment of others I’d want get paid while I could as well.
M1911A1Hawkeye
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Fair winds and following seas.
NCHawker
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trj
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Slow down
Ragini is the only guy recruited as a wide receiver, in the last 5 years, that used all his eligibility in an Iowa uniform. The attrition in the receiver room isn’t good.
NorthKCHawk
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Two things can be true at once. Of course we have a huge problem in the WR room and there are no quick fixes to that room or the offense as a whole. I hate to sound like KF, but Iowa put itself in a deep whole on offense and the players and coaches just need to grind to get out. There is no WR pixy dust that fixes this problem.
That said, Brown is not a loss. He could not get close to the field at OSU, barely added value last year, and by most accounts was just unable to grasp the new offense. Adding his OWI, it just seems like the kid should be cordially wished well in his journey elsewhere.
