Video: Iowa’s Koeppel Gets Jacked Up

Iowa center Josh Koeppel is one tough SOB.

It came across the wire early Monday morning that Koeppel was involved in a car accident while riding his motorcycle (more specifically a hip moped) in Iowa City. While details were scarce, we soon found out that Koeppel was roughed up pretty good as you might imagine, but came out of the incident with only bumps and bruises.

The backup lineman was then likely ruled out of Saturday’s game by head coach Kirk Ferentz who also said he expected him to return to action soon.

Late Tuesday night, video surfaced of Koeppel’s accident on an Iowa message board (via brantshaws) then on Twitter via @PlannedSickDays, an Iowa blogger. After seeing this quick but scary blip of the accident, it’s safe to say Koeppel isn’t only lucky that he’ll be playing soon but that he’s alive.

The following only reaffirms my claim that motorcycles/mopeds are ridiculously dangerous and Iowa lineman are actually made of 100% steel.

How he walks away from this I have no idea. Get better soon, buddy.