The Iowa Hawkeyes have built their program on the back of player development. Iowa doesn’t typically reel in a slew of high profile prep prospects, though that does happen from time to time. Instead, the current on field success has been built on identifying under recruited prospects who show the potential to be better than their star rating.
Oftentimes, that has come in the form of a prospect the staff identifies during their senior season who is showing signs of late development. Maybe it’s some physical growth, maybe it’s some new flashes of burst that weren’t there previously.