Michigan Football vs Iowa: Game Balls and The Depression Sets In

Jourdan Lewis

In a game where seemingly everyone on the team was a varying degree of off, Lewis had himself another lockdown performance.

Iowa quarterback CJ Beathard was 8/19 for 66 yards with a touchdown and a pick. Lewis was matched up against Iowa’s leading receiver CJ McCarron for most of the day, and he managed all of one catch for four yards.

It’s also becoming increasingly clear that Lewis is the only cornerback that can actually tackle (Jeremy Clark’s injury looks more unfortunate by the week).

He had two solo tackles on screens that he blew up. Those plays account for a lot of Iowa’s passing attack, and they just weren’t able to get going because they were getting blown up at the line of scrimmage.

Stribling had the big interception, but he was again exposed in the run game and wasn’t terribly sharp in coverage. I think we’ll be seeing a lot more of him in coming weeks, because throwing at Lewis seems like an increasingly absurd proposition and trying to get out to the edge on his side of the field isn’t much more likely to yield positive yardage at this point.