Duo of Iowa football stars selected to ESPN All-American Team
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The Iowa Hawkeyes have become one of college football’s most reliable pipelines to the NFL, thanks to their uncanny ability to develop players into collegiate stars and professional standouts.
This season, Iowa saw two more players step up and answer the bell for the Hawkeyes during the 2025 season. Up front on the offensive line, unanimous All-American center Logan Jones led the way for an offense that took massive strides forward this year, led by an elite ground game. Along with that recognition, ESPN has also named him to its 2025 All-American team.
C: Logan Jones, Iowa
Jones became the second Iowa player to earn the Rimington Trophy — given annually to the nation’s top center — while anchoring a Hawkeyes unit that won the Joe Moore Award (most outstanding offensive line) in his sixth college season. A career 49-game starter, Jones finished 2025 as the joint-snap leader (756) within a group that paved the way for 176.9 rushing yards per game and allowed the third-fewest pressures (108) of any Big Ten program. Per ESPN Research, only three of the 87 FBS centers who played 700-plus snaps this past fall recorded fewer blown blocks than Jones (seven). — Lederman
On special teams, consensus All-American returner Kaden Wetjen etched his name into Iowa lore as the best returner to ever wear the Iowa logo. He broke Tim Dwight’s long-standing record of total return touchdowns and electrified fans every time he touched the ball. He earned the nod as ESPN’s top returner.
Returner: Kaden Wetjen, Iowa
Simply put: Wetjen was college football’s most effective all-around return man in 2025. With 1,039 total yards between punt and kick return duties, the fifth-year special teams ace tallied 301 more total return yards than the next-closest FBS returner — Texas’ Ryan Niblett — across the country this past fall. Wetjen’s 29.75 yards per kick return ranked sixth nationally, and he led the nation with 26.8 yards per punt return while notching an FBS-best three punt return touchdowns that matched the single-season Big Ten record previously held by Ohio State’s Ted Ginn Jr. (2004). — Lederman
The duo is among the nation’s best at their positions and across all of college football. Logan Jones and Kaden Wetjen found massive success for the Iowa Hawkeyes during the 2025 season, and their contributions, especially as All-Americans, will live on at Iowa forever.
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