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Recruiting#76the 2027 class
Offense#4640 touchdowns in 2025
Defense#8by rating, of the 68
Money$23–33Mspend #30
Week 3 · NextNorthern Iowa at Iowa4:00 PM ET
OverviewDepth ChartThis weekNIL & RosterPlayer MovementDraft

Depth Chart

Offense · best 11 by role and valueTap a jersey for the profile, swap and compare in the live field →
10102020303040405050
WRDIAZ$1.1MJames
WRJAMES$0.3MBuie
SLOTBUIE$0.3MSchaffer
TEVONNAHME$0.3MWoods
LTLAUCK$2.5MNielsen
LGPIEPER$2.0MWilson
CWILSON$1.6MRiordan
RGRIORDAN$0.2MParliament
RTNIELSEN$0.4MNolan
QBBROWN$1.0MHecklinski
RBMOULTON$0.4MWilliams
Defense · 4-2-5
10102020303040405050
DEANDERSON$0.6MChineke
DTEPENESA$1.7MFitzgibbon
DTFITZGIBBON$0.2MJezierski
DECHINEKE$0.2MJezierski
LBBUFFINGTON$2.5MManson
LBMANSON$0.7MGautcher
CBBROWN$0.4MLee
CBLEE$1.0MJones
NBLUTMER$2.5MJones
SJONES$0.4MVitti
SVITTI$0.4MHaddad

The chip is the model price. Best 11 by role and value from the 2026 roster and the NIL valuations.

The schedule

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SEP 5vs NorthernW 40-0
SEP 12vs Iowa StateW 16-13
SEP 19vs NorthernW 55-0
SEP 26@ MichiganW 20-19
OCT 3vs Ohio StateL 14-31
OCT 10@ WashingtonW 41-24
OCT 24@ Minnesota
OCT 31vs Wisconsin
NOV 7@ Northwestern
NOV 14vs Purdue
NOV 21@ Illinois
NOV 27vs Nebraska
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This week

Week 3: the game, our number against the market, one trend.

Northern Iowa at Iowa
Kickoff
2026-09-19 4:00 PM ET
The line
Iowa -40.5 · O/U 49.5
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Our number vs the market

No lean on this one.

Our number and the market are within a field goal.

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Roster & NIL

Who is paid, who is worth it, and where the money sits.

$29Mmodel payroll across 70 priced players
Where the money sits
OL$7.7M
DB$6.0M
DL$5.1M
LB$4.3M
WR$2.5M
QB$1.6M
TE$1.4M
The top five
1
Trevor LauckOT · Senior · starter
94.2model$2.5M
2
Zach LutmerS · Senior · starter
73.3model$2.5M
3
Cam BuffingtonLB · Junior · starter
93.0model$2.4M
4
Kade PieperIOL · Senior · starter
96.0model$2.0M
5
Iose EpenesaIDL · Sophomore · starter
58.0model$1.7M
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Player Movement

Who came through the portal, who left, and what each room looks like now.

Position rooms · by Model Score
OT94Lauck
IOL84Pieper, Wilson
S76Watson, Lutmer
LB73Buffington, Montgomery
QB72Brown
TE70Vonnahme, Ostrenga
DB70Jones, Wallace
RB66Moulton, Williams
CB66Lee
IDL64Hawthorne, Hubert
WR59Diaz
Portal flow · 15 in, 8 out
In $4.5M
Trent WilsonIOL · from James Madison
$1.6M
Tony DiazWR · from Texas-Rio Grande Valley
$1.1M
Lance IngoldEDGE · from Northern Illinois
$0.5M
Tyler BrownS · from James Madison
$0.3M
11 more
Out $0.8M
Koen EntringerS · to Louisville
$0.5M
Jaziun PattersonRB · to Michigan State
$0.3M
Jackson StrattonQB · to the portal
Rhys DakinP · to Michigan State
4 more
Net +$3.8M
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Draft

Iowa on the 2027 board, our rank beside the consensus.

On the 2027 board · 10 Iowa players
Trevor LauckOT · No. 16 our board94.2modelconsensus 31 ↑
Kade PieperOG · No. 25 our board96.0modelconsensus 25
Zach LutmerS · No. 102 our board73.3modelconsensus 115 ↑
Tony DiazWR · No. 203 our board59.1modelconsensus 199 ↓
DJ VonnahmeTE · No. 264 our board75.9modelconsensus 311 ↑
Deshaun LeeCBN · No. 272 our boardconsensus 273 ↑
Kamari MoultonRB · No. 288 our board71.7modelconsensus 299 ↑
Bryce HawthorneDL3T · No. 371 our boardconsensus 426 ↑
Moving on our board · since Oct 12
Risers
Nobody moved.
Fallers
Tony DiazWR
↓ 83No. 120 → 203
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