Who will start at quarterback for Iowa? Many fans have been wondering that same question since Mark Gronowski went down with an injury against Indiana. “Regarding Mark, so far so good. It’s been encouraging. He’s gotten some good work in. A week ago, I wasn’t so optimistic,” said Kirk Ferentz, Iowa football’s head coach. “We’ll […]
Who will start at quarterback for Iowa? Many fans have been wondering that same question since Mark Gronowski went down with an injury against Indiana.
“Regarding Mark, so far so good. It’s been encouraging. He’s gotten some good work in. A week ago, I wasn’t so optimistic,” said Kirk Ferentz, Iowa football’s head coach. “We’ll take it as it goes this week.”
On the depth chart, Gronowski is listed as QB 1, while Hank Brown and Jeremy Heclinski are both listed as second.
“Right now, we’re working all three of the guys,” Ferentz said. “(Mark) worked well today, so we’ll see how it all goes along as we move along here. Last week, Mark didn’t do anything with football. He didn’t get any snaps. We took all the reps that we did have and divided up those two guys. We’re going to let those guys compete. Really with all three of them now, it’s who looks best by Friday, that’s who will start the game. It’s a pretty open competition. Hank has done a really nice job. Jeremy has been impressive. In season it’s tough to give three guys reps. It’s hard to do.”
Ferentz added there is a clear threshold for Gronowski to meet if he is going to play against Wisconsin.
“It’s a matter of what (Mark) can do effectively,” Ferentz said. “I just threw in that word ‘confidence’. That’s going to be the number one conversation at the end of the week, that you can go out there and play well, play effectively, not be thinking about it, not trying to protect yourself, that type of deal. That doesn’t do anybody any good. That’s what the week is at right now. It’s work through it and see what he looks like. Looks like he’s fine today. Who knows tomorrow. He may be sore, he may be swollen. We don’t know. We’ll take it a day at a time and see what it looks like. He has to feel good. Obviously there’s got to be medical clearance. None of this would have happened without the medical clearance.”
Iowa travels to Madison, Wisconsin, to take on the Badgers on Saturday.
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