Article: Bulldog Breakdown: The Football Player, Part 1

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By Anna Kayser

 

At the beginning of his recruitment process with the Iowa Hawkeye football program, Leighton Jones was handed a piece of paper.

 

“There were about 15 or 16 wrestlers who have made All-Big Ten [on that paper]. All-Big Ten isn’t easy at all to do,” Leighton said. “It wasn’t just all the guys that wrestled, it was all the guys that placed or were state champs.”

 

On Wednesday, Dec. 21, the rest became history.

 

Leighton’s career has been building toward the opportunity to add his name to the list of Iowa football players with wrestling in their blood. Both sports went hand-in-hand from the very beginning, and together helped his skills grow to the level of a future Division I football player.

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One might wonder who those bigger guys at Cobra the '6th grade' Leighton was wrestling? I'd take a stab that Leighton was somewhere between 165-180 back then. I still recall the astonishment when I told my 70lb son that the kid wrestling Lee and Brewer was a year younger than him.