Greg Davis, Iowa’s offensive coordinator, was stationed high in the coach’s booth when quarterback C.J. Beathard crashed into the end zone from nine yards out against Pitt early in the 2015 season.
Beathard sprang up immediately after the second-quarter score, received the customary back thwacks and helmet whaps from teammates, and then started making his way back to the Iowa sideline.
Slowly.
“When he came off the field he was kind of limping a little bit,” Davis, now retired, recalled. “So when he got on the phone I said, ‘Hey, you OK?’ He said, ‘Yeah, I got hit on the hip.