In this week’s Big 12 roundtable, we’re offering some early impressions on spring practices around the conference.
What’s been the most interesting spring development in the Big 12 thus far?
Mitch Sherman: The Joel Lanning experiment. Iowa State’s senior quarterback traded a green jersey, which protects him from contact, for a white shirt in the midst of the Cyclones’ first spring practice on Feb. 28. He’s trying out linebacker this spring, and Lanning looks the part at 6-foot-2 and 225 pounds. Still, this is a guy who started 14 games at QB over the past two seasons and has thrown for 2,537 yards.