Robert Gallery, Bob Sanders, Nate Kaeding. You can’t help but link the three former Iowa football stars together. They were taken in the first, second, and third rounds of the 2004 NFL draft, respectively. There wasn’t a highly regarded high school recruit among the three. Yet, they all blossomed into All-Big Ten players, All-American in [...]

Nate Kaeding of Iowa City, one of the National Football League’s most-productive placekickers of the last decade, announced his retirement from football Thursday. “Over the last three years I’ve struggled with recurring muscle injuries in my kicking leg,” Kaeding said. “Since January of this offseason I executed a deliberate and comprehensive training regimen devised to [...]

Nate Kaeding signed a one-year contract with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tuesday morning. Kaeding, the former All-America collegian from Iowa, and Iowa City West, is a 9-year NFL veteran. He had spent his entire career with the San Diego Chargers until getting waived in midseason. He was signed for the last two games of the [...]

So, we had a little problem with the production truck at the site of our “On Iowa Live” television show Monday night and couldn’t do a live telecast from the Fieldhouse restaurant/bar on Blairs Ferry Road NE in Cedar Rapids. Which was a disappointment, since NFL/former Iowa kicker Nate Kaeding was on hand to talk [...]

(Former University of Iowa kicker Nate Kaeding is an occasional guest-contributor to the Hlog. He was waived by the San Diego Chargers in midseason after being placed on injured reserve with a groin injury. In this essay, he offers a look at how he went from free agency/unemployment in San Diego last week to signing [...]

Some NFL guys go from Buffalo to Cleveland. Nate Kaeding is going from San Diego to Miami. The ninth-year NFL kicker from Iowa was a free agent for the last several weeks after getting waived on Oct. 30 by the San Diego Chargers. He’ll finish up this season with the Miami Dolphins. Miami needed a [...]

  The San Diego Chargers have placed former Iowa kicker Nate Kaeding on injured reserve Monday. As soon as Kaeding is healed enough from his groin injury to go off IR, the Chargers will release him according to this NFL.com report. Kaeding had gotten off to a great start this season, hitting on all seven [...]

This is another in a series of essays former Iowa/current San Diego Chargers Nate Kaeding is writing for the Hlog and The Gazette: Zach Johnson is the greatest Iowa-made professional athlete of our time. His remarkable Ryder Cup performance this past weekend in Chicago adds yet another layer to his ever-expanding legacy. He does it [...]

After Iowa’s upset loss to Central Michigan last Saturday, Nate is sharing thoughts about what it’s like for a team that is questioning itself, and how he says Hawkeyes Coach Kirk Ferentz leads this team through tough times. This is his essay: “What’s a Chippewa?” Of all the kooky, crazy questions my 4-year-old son asks me [...]

Recently, former Iowa/current San Diego Chargers kicker Nate Kaeding gave me a call. He said he got a taste last year of what life after playing football will be like when he suffered a season-ending knee injury in the first game of the 2011 NFL season. Among the things he would like to try in [...]