Since transferring from Buffalo, Charlie Jones has become a fixture among Iowa’s wide receivers. The 6-foot, 188 pound redshirt senior was also named the Rodgers-Dwight Big Ten Return Specialist of the Year in 2021.
Jones averaged 7.7 yards on a league-high 37 punt returns and he returned 25 kickoffs for an average of 25.4 yards per return, which ranked second in the Big Ten. He also finished the 2021 season with 21 receptions and three touchdown receptions for 323 receiving yards, which ranked fourth among Hawkeye pass-catchers.
Jones signed with Buffalo as a two-star wide receiver out of Deerfield, Ill. According to 247Sports, he was the nation’s No. 385 wide receiver and the No. 71 player out of Illinois in the 2017 class. During the 2018 season at Buffalo, Jones hauled in 18 grabs for 395 receiving yards and three touchdowns.
In Iowa’s spring depth chart reveal, Jones was one of the Hawkeyes’ No. 2 wide receivers and listed atop both the punt return and kick return duties. The redshirt senior figures to play a pivotal role again in helping Iowa flip the field in 2022. Let’s take a look at his Iowa career thus far through these remarkable photos.