Sought-after star quarterback from Chicago suburb finds next home at Iowa NBC Chicago [Video]

Once upon a time, Mark Gronowski was a lightly recruited quarterback at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville.

“In high school, I was pretty under-recruited,” Gronowski remembers. “I only had the one scholarship offer to South Dakota State.”

Things worked out okay for him there, as he led the Jackrabbits to a pair of national championships and won 49 games as a starter, tied for the most in FCS history.

“I can’t think of words to describe it,” Gronowski said about his time in Brookings, S.D. “I’m almost just speechless thinking about – it’s kind of more than I could ever dreamed of being there and playing there.”

But with a year of eligibility left, the 23-year-old decided to enter the NCAA’s Transfer Portal, and he quickly found out big-time programs liked his winning resume and his more than 10,000 career passing yards.

“The crazy thing was just all the …