Iowa football: Top three performances from Week 3 against the Panthers

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IOWA CITY, IOWA- SEPTEMBER 15: Tight end Noah Fant #87of the Iowa Hawkeyes is brought down during the first half by defensive back A.J. Allen #23 of the Northern Iowa Panthers on September 15, 2018 at Kinnick Stadium, in Iowa City, Iowa. (Photo by Matthew Holst/Getty Images) /

Noah Fant

We at Dear Old Gold haven’t been the easiest on Noah Fant, but with great talent comes great expectations. When you are often talked about as a future first rounder, those expectations rise.

Fant will never be known as a blocker, but in the first two games he struggled as a receiver as well dropping routine passes and not creating enough of a mismatch in the passing game.

Saturday’s night contest was like watching a whole new Noah Fant. He was virtually unstoppable in the first half, and Nate Stanley was locked into him.

Noah Fant can do about anything he wants today. That's a 5-yard touchdown pass from Nate Stanley and ... for the first time in 2018, the Hawkeyes have a first-quarter point.

10 plays, 92 yards. Iowa 7, UNI 0.
— Chad Leistikow🆑 (@ChadLeistikow) September 16, 2018

Fant would go on to finish the night with five catches for 99 yards and one touchdown.

That touchdown was one of historic value too. It gave the junior out of Nebraska the all-time touchdown record for tight ends at Iowa. That’s a pretty solid list of guys he is ahead of including Tony Moeaki, George Kittle, Dallas Clark, and C.J. Fiedorowicz (all mid-round draft picks).

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