Learn more about receiver\/returner Kaden Wetjen in this edition of Five Fast Facts.<\/p>\n
1. The Steelers selected Iowa wide receiver Kaden Wetjen with the 121st overall pick in the fourth round of the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n
2. Wetjen started seven of the 40 games he appeared in for Iowa. He had 23 receptions for 197 yards and one touchdown over three seasons.<\/p>\n
He also shined as a punt returner, with 954 return yards, a 17.7-yard average, and four touchdowns. He also returned 56 kickoffs for 1,538 yards, a 27.5-yard average, and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n
3. Wetjen was a consensus All-American in 2025 as a returner, including Walter Camp, AFCA, Sporting News, FWAA, USA Today, On3, and PFF first-team All-America. He was also named to The Athletic second-team All-America list.<\/p>\n
4. Wetjen won the 2025 Jet Award, which honors the most outstanding return specialist in college football. It was the second time he won it, previously doing so in 2024.<\/p>\n
He was also the recipient of the 2024 and 2025 Big Ten Rodgers-Dwight Return Specialist of the Year Award, the first two-time recipient since the award was created in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Learn more about receiver\/returner Kaden Wetjen in this edition of Five Fast Facts. 1. The Steelers selected Iowa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[831,304644,399,398,396,397,23070,304645,23071,99],"class_list":["post-770853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-featured","tag-five-fast-facts","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-non-sponsored","tag-player-feature","tag-sights-and-sounds","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770853","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=770853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}