{"id":874887,"date":"2026-04-26T05:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874887\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T05:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:03:14","slug":"iowa-football-opens-spring-game-to-fans-with-new-faces-at-key-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874887\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa football opens spring game to fans with new faces at key positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">IOWA CITY, Iowa (KWQC) &#8211; Iowa football welcomed fans back to Kinnick Stadium for spring practice Saturday as the Hawkeyes work to replace graduated quarterback Mark Gronowski as well as several key players drafted into the NFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hank Brown took reps at quarterback, throwing to standout sophomore tight end DJ Vonnahme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Three of last season\u2019s Joe Moore Award-winning offensive linemen were drafted. One is returning: Kade Pieper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Pieper said the team is focused on building its own identity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI feel like we\u2019re just trying to be our own group. Last year was 2025, this year was 2026,\u201d Pieper said. \u201cWe\u2019re just trying to have fun, get better every single day. And that\u2019s just what makes it fun. It\u2019s getting better every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Defensive back Deshaun Lee said spring practices have helped the team sharpen skills ahead of fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI feel like it\u2019s a great learning experience, especially just to sharpen your tools for the fall, man. Just being able to go against a different variety of receivers,\u201d Lee said. \u201cYou got to change up your technique depending on who you\u2019re going against. And that\u2019s a part of just having that situational awareness and knowing who you\u2019re going against and how you got to play and having a plan. So I feel like it\u2019s making us all better at the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWQC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IOWA CITY, Iowa (KWQC) &#8211; Iowa football welcomed fans back to Kinnick Stadium for spring practice Saturday as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,4523,41648,31451,3669,3035],"class_list":["post-874887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-hawkeyes","tag-iowa-football","tag-kinnick-stadium","tag-spring-football","tag-spring-practice"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116469262115752856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874887","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=874887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}