We all know why Keagan Johnson is using the transfer portal.

Some of Iowa’s dreams for the future and present have vanished with Keagan Johnson’s departure. Johnson was a four-star recruit from Bellevue West High School in Nebraska when he arrived in Iowa City. He chose the Hawkeyes over the Cornhuskers. His arrival gave Iowa the green light to pursue a top wide receiver prospect.

He also showed a great deal of promise in his true freshman season. With 18 catches for 352 yards, Johnson set a team record for wide receivers. The Bellevue product made two successful landings.

So why isn’t this marriage succeeding?

You are aware. Yes, I am aware. Keagan Johnson is aware. Iowa is aware. The country is aware. Keagan Johnson revealed he was going to be using the transfer site, and everyone knows why.

This is due to the Hawkeyes’ foul stench. Iowa had the 130th-ranked total offense and the 123rd-ranked scoring offense in the USA at the end of the regular season. The Hawkeyes scored only 17.4 points per game on average.

Regarding Johnson’s circumstances specifically, Iowa’s quarterbacks struggle to protect themselves when they drop back to pass, and even when they did, they performed a poor job of getting the ball to their skill players. The Iowa passers were dropped 37 times, which put the Hawkeyes in 111th place nationally in terms of sacks allowed.

At just 158.2 yards per game, Iowa’s passing offense was rated 122nd in the country. During the season, the Hawkeyes only completed six touchdown passes. In actuality, Iowa was intercepted once more, with seven picks made in contrast to its six airborne touchdowns.

Unbelievably, from a year ago, when Iowa threw just 12 touchdown passes and was intercepted 11 times, it represents a true regression. In 2021, the Hawkeyes’ passing offense ranked No. 109 in the nation.

This season, 30 or more touchdown passes were completed by 14 different FBS teams. That is fourteen teams that surpassed the Hawkeyes in touchdown passes by a factor of at least five. With twenty-four or more touchdown passes, forty teams had four times as many as the Hawkeyes.

With the fewest passing touchdowns at the end of the regular season in all of college football, the Hawkeyes finished fourth overall. Only one touchdown pass separated Iowa from that offensive force, the Nevada Wolfpack, whom they crushed 27-0, and which also featured a touchdown pass against Petras and the Hawkeyes’ passing game.

Here’s a more perspective on Iowa’s throwing touchdowns. Iowa would have scored one fewer defensive touchdown than the passing touchdowns it threw if Hawkeyes linebacker Jack Campbell hadn’t been denied a clear pick-six touchdown against Minnesota.

Iowa had severe running back problems even with rising star Kaleb Johnson in the backfield. With an average of 97.2 running yards per game, Iowa’s rushing offense was rated 122nd, while the Hawkeyes only scored 12 touchdowns on the ground……