Iowa Hawkeyes Hall of Fame Inductee Shares Recruitment Story

Iowa Hawkeyes Hall of Fame Inductee Brandon Scherff opened up on how he was recruited to Iowa. Hawkeyes assistant coach Reese Morgan approached him at a track and field event, asking Scherff if he played football.

“He asked me if I played football,” Scherff said. “I said, ‘You bet.’ He says, ‘What position?’ I said, ‘Quarterback.’ He says, ‘Oh, no.’”

Despite Scherff being a quarterback, the Hawkeyes remained interested in him.

“I got an offer from Iowa, and I said, ‘For quarterback?’ and Coach (Kirk) Ferentz said, ‘Absolutely not,’” Scherff said. “They saw something in me that I never, never imagined.”

Ferentz and Iowa envisioned Scherff as an offensive lineman, and he turned into an elite one.

“I think it was sophomore year, I remember sitting down with them, and they said that if you keep playing well and doing this, you’ve got a shot at playing in the NFL,” Scherff said. “As a little kid, that was a dream for me. And it kind of put it in perspective for me that, you know, it could happen.

In the 2014 season at Iowa, Scherff was named an All-American and was named the Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year. This season made him one of the top prospects as he entered the 2015 NFL Draft.