Iowa wide receiver Kaleb Brown to redshirt and opt out for remainder of 2024 season | Sports

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Brown says he ‘will not be playing in any additional games this season’


Iowa Hawkeyes wide receiver Kaleb Brown (3) run after making a reception during warmups of their Big Ten Conference football game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Neb., on Friday, November 24, 2023. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Iowa Hawkeyes wide receiver Kaleb Brown (3) run after making a reception throughout warm-ups of their Big Ten Conference soccer sport in opposition to the Nebraska Cornhuskers at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Neb., on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

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IOWA CITY — Iowa wide receiver Kaleb Brown has opted out of the remainder of the Hawkeyes’ 2024 video games and will use his redshirt yr, he introduced Monday morning on social media.

“I wish my teammates the best of luck this season and hope for continued success of the program,” Brown mentioned in a social media submit.

Brown’s submit didn't point out what his plans are for the long run. The subsequent soccer switch portal window will open on Dec. 9.

Brown transferred from Ohio State to Iowa in 2023 as a much-ballyhooed prospect and appeared in 11 video games for the Hawkeyes final season. He had 22 receptions for 215 yards and one landing in Iowa’s final six video games of the season after not having any catches in September or October.

The 5-foot-10 receiver from Chicago had a way more restricted function this season. He appeared in three video games and had one reception for 18 yards. He took 19 snaps this season, in accordance to Pro Football Focus, together with just one in Iowa’s Week 4 win over Minnesota.

Offensive coordinator Tim Lester mentioned through the bye week that Iowa has “got to find ways to get him the ball.”

“We've had him targeted a couple times, and he just hasn't run the route quite like we needed him to,” Lester mentioned.

Brown was listed as “out” on the Hawkeyes’ pregame availability report in opposition to Ohio State, which Kirk Ferentz attributed afterward to a “soft tissue” damage in follow. Brown additionally missed Iowa’s season opener with a one-game suspension following his OWI arrest this summer time.

Players can seem in up to 4 video games whereas nonetheless exercising a redshirt yr. He nonetheless had his redshirt yr obtainable as a result of he appeared in 5 video games as a real freshman at Ohio State in 2022. Brown could have two years of eligibility remaining.

An Iowa soccer workforce spokesman didn't instantly touch upon Brown’s determination and his standing on the workforce. Ferentz’s weekly information convention shall be on Tuesday at 12:45 p.m.

Brown’s announcement, which coincides together with his twenty first birthday, follows a development of school athletes opting out midseason whereas utilizing the four-game redshirt rule to protect eligibility.

This most notably has occurred at UNLV, the place quarterback Matthew Sluka and operating again Michael Allen have foregone the remainder of the their 2024 seasons. (Brown and Sluka had the very same first sentences of their bulletins — “I have decided to utilize my redshirt year and will not be playing in any additional games this season.”)

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