{"id":556056,"date":"2026-03-31T11:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/556056\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:39:12","slug":"iowa-wins-big-ten-recruiting-battle-and-secures-commitment-from-ol-reilly-newman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/556056\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa wins Big Ten recruiting battle and secures commitment from OL Reilly Newman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Chester (Ohio) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/high-school\/lakota-west-west-chester-oh-23812\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lakota West<\/a> offensive line prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/reilly-newman-259956\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reilly Newman<\/a> visited Iowa this past week<\/p>\n<p>Now he\u2019s in the fold.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-6, 290-pound Newman chose the Hawkeyes over an offer list that also included Michigan, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Oregon, Minnesota and Indiana among others.<\/p>\n<p>Future position coach George Barnett was the lead recruiter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got there and coaching staff was amazing,\u201d Newman told Rivals. \u201cI really like Coach Barnett. He is very straightforward and genuine and he told me that I would fit in well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Kirk Ferentz also made an impression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI met with Coach Ferentz and he said the same thing and told me that they could help me achieve what I want.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think I just knew when I got there that it was the best place for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/iowa-hawkeyes\/football\/2027\/industry-comparison-commits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newman is commit No. 5 for Iowa in the 2027 class<\/a>, adding to a haul that Rivals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/rankings\/industry-team\/football\/2027\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously ranked No. 25 nationally.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a really great visit and I loved it there,\u201d Newman said. \u201cI think the coaching staff was amazing and they checked all of the boxes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Chester (Ohio) Lakota West offensive line prospect Reilly Newman visited Iowa this past week Now he\u2019s in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,247010,398,396,397,24896,247011,99],"class_list":["post-556056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-lakota-west-firebirds-west-chester","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-oh","tag-reilly-newman-27-lakota-west","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}