{"id":648733,"date":"2026-01-02T18:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T18:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/648733\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T18:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T18:39:12","slug":"dakin-headed-to-the-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/648733\/","title":{"rendered":"Dakin headed to the transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa starting punter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/rhys-dakin-239267\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Rhys Dakin<\/a> is headed to the transfer portal.  The 6-foot-4, 223-pound Australian native made the announcement today after finishing his sophomore season with the Hawkeyes.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Dakin averaged 43.6 yards per punt for the Hawkeyes. He will have two years of eligibility remaining.<\/p>\n<p>With Iowa special teams coordinator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/levar-woods-133235\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">LeVar Woods<\/a> moving on to Michigan State to work for new head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/pat-fitzgerald-132445\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Pat Fitzgerald<\/a>, the Spartans will be a team to watch for Dakin.<\/p>\n<p>Backup punter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/ty-nissen-236924\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ty Nissen<\/a> graduated this year, so the Hawkeyes will now be in the market for two new punters this off-season whether it comes from the transfer portal or the high school or junior college ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Stay with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/iowa-hawkeyes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">HawkeyeReport.com<\/a>\u00a0for the latest on Iowa football recruiting.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iowa starting punter Rhys Dakin is headed to the transfer portal. The 6-foot-4, 223-pound Australian native made the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48,34444],"class_list":{"0":"post-648733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-rhys-dakin-24-prokick-australia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115826967584644642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648733","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=648733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}