{"id":289791,"date":"2025-08-15T09:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/289791\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:58:14","slug":"new-york-jets-bring-in-former-iowa-football-qb-for-workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/289791\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Jets bring in former Iowa football QB for workout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known for their defensive prowess and pipeline to the NFL, the <a href=\"https:\/\/hawkeyeswire.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Iowa Hawkeyes<\/a> send some strong quarterback play to the NFL as well. The most recent former Iowa football QB to earn some looks from an NFL squad is C.J. Beathard, who played at Iowa for four years.<\/p>\n<p>C.J. Beathard, the former Iowa QB, was brought in by the <a href=\"https:\/\/jetswire.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">New York Jets<\/a> for a workout today amid some injuries to the quarterback position. He joined another former Iowa Hawkeye, <a href=\"https:\/\/hawkeyeswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/hawkeyes\/football\/2025\/08\/14\/iowa-football-brandon-smith-jets-camp\/85656116007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">wide receiver Brandon Smith, making noise for the Jets.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Journeyman backup Tyrod Taylor was the backup quarterback to Justin Fields, but he has undergone a minor scope surgery to his knee, which will hold him out for the rest of the preseason. Following that news, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-jets\/352\" data-autotag=\"61e70eee-950b-4335-a373-675b010563dc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jets<\/a> brought in Beathard, an NFL veteran as well, for a workout.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ninerswire.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> drafted C.J. Beathard with the No. 104 pick overall in the third round of the 2017 NFL draft. He was with the 49ers from 2017-20 before joining the<a href=\"https:\/\/jaguarswire.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> from 2021-21. He spent the 2024 season with both the Jaguars and <a href=\"https:\/\/dolphinswire.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Miami Dolphins.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During his NFL career, Beathard has appeared in 32 games. He has thrown for 3,886 yards and 19 touchdowns with four more scores on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Beathard spent 2012-2016 with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/iowa-hawkeyes\/3434\/\" data-autotag=\"6610c59f-1f25-4371-9123-fabf609c6911\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iowa Hawkeyes<\/a>. During his time at Iowa, he appeared in 40 games and has 28 starts to his name. He threw for 5,507 yards and 40 touchdowns for the Hawkeyes with 10 more scores on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>C.J. Beathard commanded the Iowa Hawkeyes&#8217; offense during their magical 2015 season that saw them end the regular season 12-0 and earn a trip to the Rose Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hawkeyeswire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@HawkeyesWire<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hawkeyeswire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/iowa-hawkeyes\/3434\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Iowa<\/a>\u00a0news, notes, and opinions.\u00a0Follow Riley on X:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rileydonald7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@rileydonald7<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Known for their defensive prowess and pipeline to the NFL, the Iowa Hawkeyes send some strong quarterback play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[323,247,265,322,20844,62,318,339,324,7,4523,20842,521,4525,226,248,267,206,1917,255,88,2321,2097,6,245,537,530,9,266,2355,1223,19497,11863,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-289791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-323","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-big","12":"tag-big-10-hub","13":"tag-big-ten-conference-football","14":"tag-college","15":"tag-college-sports","16":"tag-conference","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-hawkeyes","19":"tag-hub","20":"tag-iowa","21":"tag-iowa-hawkeyes-football","22":"tag-jets","23":"tag-national","24":"tag-national-sports","25":"tag-new","26":"tag-new-york","27":"tag-new-york-jets","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-newyork","30":"tag-newyorkjets","31":"tag-nfl","32":"tag-overall","33":"tag-overall-positive","34":"tag-positive","35":"tag-sports","36":"tag-sports-news","37":"tag-taylor","38":"tag-ten","39":"tag-tyrod","40":"tag-tyrod-taylor","41":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115032195450436282","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}