When will Iowa players hear their names called this weekend? Will Iowa players hear their names called this weekend?
The 2016 NFL Draft begins tonight, but from an Iowa perspective, this could be one of the quieter and least interesting drafts in a while. Iowa has had at least one player selected in the NFL Draft every year since 1978, a streak that stretches beyond the tenures of both Kirk Ferentz and Hayden Fry. The Iowa-to-the-NFL pipeline has only gotten stronger under Fry and Ferentz. In all, 58 former Iowa players have heard their name called during the NFL Draft since the first NFL Draft of the Ferentz Era in 2000, beginning with Matt Bowen and Austin Wheatley in 2000 and most recently with Brandon Scherff, Carl Davis, and Andrew Donnal last year.