Regardless of circumstance, anytime that you lose an experienced player who started every game the season before, it’s a zinger.That was my immediate reaction on Thursday afternoon when Iowa State broke the news that senior linebacker Jordan Harris was transferring (I’m he...
The Knott name will always be synonomous with terms such as toughness, grit and sacrifice. Sometimes enough is enough, though. Life calls and pain becomes so persistent that an internal struggle ensued. That's what Iowa State linebacker LukeKnott has endured for years — and finally he...
AMES — Trevone Boykin will make big plays. Josh Doctson will likely shake free of coverage — or flat out beat it — more than once.Boom and gloom for Iowa State fans? We’ll see. Simply put, the heavily disfavored Cyclones face a bona fide behemoth as No. ...
AMES — Pain pulsed through Iowa State linebacker Luke Knott’s hip. It’s been an ongoing issue — and so chronic and debilitating that his coach, Paul Rhoads, said this spring he might never play football again. A major decision loomed, one backlit by hea...
AMES — Levi Peters likes to wear camo. While enjoying some of his favorite off-the-field pursuits, it’s imperative to blend in to the surroundings, so his quarry won’t see him coming. On the field the former walk-on linebacker from itty bitty Gilmore City sta...
AMES — Uneventful. In a word, that described Iowa State’s first practice of fall camp on Friday — and that’s a very, very good thing. Remember last year? Backup offensive lineman Ben Loth suffered a season and career-ending knee injury on day one. It set a...
Forty-two is a staggering number.According to the Phil Steele College Football Preview that recently hit newsstands, that’s how many “starts” Iowa State missed out on during the 2014 football season due to injury or discipline (does not count one guy bei...
OTTUMWA — Finally, some good news in the twist-, turn- and tear-filled football career of Luke Knott. The popular junior Cyclone linebacker’s twice-repaired hip appears to be good to go for summer workouts and fall camp after receiving a shot to alleviate ongoing...
“We’re not going to the playoffs.”That’s the prescient sentence — according to CBSSports.com and various national media outlets — that TCU coach Gary Patterson shared with ISU coach Paul Rhoads before the then-No. 3 Horned Frogs took the field to trounce the...
AMES — Iowa State linebacker Luke Knott is facing a health-related crossroads. Again. The 6-1, 221-pound junior came back from left hip surgery performed after his redshirt freshman season to record 74 tackles — third-best on the team in 2014. But he also unde...
