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Iowa Football offered a 2026 prospect that is currently committed to a Big Ten Rival

Committed to a program or not, if you are a multi-positional football player, the Iowa Hawkeyes will come calling.

Under Head Coach Kirk Ferentz, the Iowa program excels at developing underrecruited prospects into All-Big Ten performers.

A lot of those players start as one position, and end up succeeding in another.

A prime example of that is former Hawkeye Cooper DeJean, who was a talented all-around athlete for Odebolt-Arthur-Battle Creek-Ida Grove (OA-BCIG) High School in Ida Grove, Iowa.

DeJean was a quarterback and a defensive back in high school, but played primarily as a defensive back for the Hawkeyes.