IOWA CITY — Iowa cornerback Micah Hyde was selected in the fifth round by Green Bay in today’s NFL draft. Hyde, 22, picked up the Big Ten’s Tatum-Woodson Defensive Back of the Year Award and was named first team All-Big Ten by both league coaches and media. He tied for 18th in Iowa history in [...]
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IOWA CITY — Iowa’s unprecedented success at landing players in the NFL likely won’t transfer to this weekend’s draft. In each of the last three years, Iowa had six draft picks, including first-rounders in all three. All but one of those players over were selected before the seventh round. But after a 4-8 campaign, Iowa [...]
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — University of Iowa cornerback Micah Hyde had a memorable journey to the East-West Shrine Game, set for Saturday afternoon at Tropicana Field. “I left Iowa in a blizzard,” Hyde said. “We got to Ohio — another blizzard. Then we get down here and it’s absolutely perfect.” Temperatures have been in the [...]
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Iowa senior Micah Hyde won the Big Ten’s Tatum-Woodson Defensive Back of the year, the Big Ten announced Monday night. Hyde, a three-year starter for the Hawkeyes, finished fourth in the Big Ten this season with 15 passes defended. He also had an interception, forced two fumbles and finished fourth in the converence with 7.44 [...]
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OPENING SALVO Iowa failed to convert first-half opportunities into points, which cost the Hawkeyes in a 13-7 loss to Nebraska on Friday. Twice Iowa recovered Nebraska fumbles in decent field position. The first was on a dropped punt by Ameer Abdullah, which Iowa’s Micah Hyde recovered at the Hawkeyes’ 41. Iowa drove to the Nebraska [...]
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IOWA CITY — Football programs at Iowa and Nebraska played side-by-side in different conferences for more than 100 years, ignoring each other with indifference and slight disdain. That changed in 2011 when Nebraska joined the Big Ten. The league super-glued the programs together as potential rivals. Big Ten officials placed the teams in the same division, [...]
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OPENING SALVO Iowa was outplayed and outcoached by a team that had lost its last five games, featured a coach that’s clearly on the hot seat and hadn’t won in Kinnick Stadium in 20 years. Iowa’s first-half execution was horrendous. The Hawkeyes were 1-7 on third down, had rushed for 18 yards on 14 carries [...]
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IOWA CITY — Micah Hyde liked to play sports when he was growing up in Fostoria, Ohio, a small town of around 14,000 in northwest Ohio. He really liked to play sports. He played a lot of sports. Every sport. Any sport. Sports all day, all night. Sports, sports sports. “We got an Xbox for [...]
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Iowa’s weekly football news conference often brings interesting topics and discussions. In this video, center James Ferentz talks about how special his father’s 100th win at Iowa felt for his family, quarterback James Vandenberg is asked about getting the tight ends more involved, safety Tom Donatell talks about his future goals and cornerback Micah Hyde [...]
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IOWA CITY — A couple of things off the top, 1) this was hardly the crime of the century and 2) Micah Hyde’s weekend arrest does give pause to review some crime-and-punishment protocol with the Iowa football program. Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz said Tuesday that Hyde, a senior cornerback, will start and play Saturday [...]
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