Iose Epenesa holds the RDE · Starter spot in Iowa Hawkeyes’s edge room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Iose Epenesa is a right defensive end for the Iowa Hawkeyes standing 6'3" and weighing 269 pounds. The Glen Carbon, Illinois native from Edwardsville High School arrived at Iowa as a four-star recruit ranked 36th overall in the 2025 class with a rating of 0.9822. Epenesa is a redshirt freshman in 2026. In 2025, he recorded 1 total tackle and 1 tackle for loss across his appearances.

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