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Xavier Nwankpa returning for improvement on several fronts

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Xavier Newankpa
Xavier Nwankpa talks reasons for returning. (Photo: Tom Kakert)

If you looked around a various mock drafts either before or during the college football season, you would probably see the name of Xavier Nwankpa. But, as this season played out, Nwankpa would figure out that due to his struggles in his junior year, some of them health related, that it would be best to return for his senior year.

Nwankpa talks about his reasons for returning for one more year and the goals he has ahead of him for growing not only as a player on the field, but as a leader on it as well for the Iowa football program. He also shares a few names of young players that have impressed him.

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