Five position battles to watch for during Notre Dame football’s spring practices

With under a week left until Notre Dame football returns to the field for its spring practices, plenty of people are interesting in how some intriguing position battles play out.

There are some positions where there aren’t really any questions for the Irish, like the secondary, but others do have more than a few that could get answered during these practices.

Injuries surely will help shake out some of these battles, but as many of the players are fresh from winter conditioning, there is hope some of these battles don’t drag into the fall.

Here are my five most important Notre Dame football position battles to watch for during the spring.

Wide receiver

What to watch

The Irish added multiple bodies to this position group via the transfer portal which include: Jayden Harrison, Beaux Collins, and Kris Mitchell. Each of them bring an added element to the room with incumbents Jordan Faison, Jayden Thomas and Jaden Greathouse. Freshman Cam Williams could force his way into the rotation as well.

Notre Dame lost four players to the portal from this position group, so you have to expect the transfers to play a whole lot. How they are able to mesh with Riley Leonard will be on everyone’s mind but…

Quarterback

What to watch

The Duke transfer has been reported ruled out of spring practice. This opens up the reps for multiple younger players like Kenny Minchey, CJ Carr and Steve Angeli, who showed in the Sun Bowl that he belonged. Leonard would not have transferred in without the assurance to the QB1 job, so but this spring could go far for the Irish in terms of development of the backups.

Next year Notre Dame could be in the same position it has been the last few offseasons, do they pick another quarterback out of the portal or stick with their own guys? This spring will be the start of their evaluation about what happens later…

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Author : Fighting Irish Wire

Publish date : 2024-03-02 20:18:07

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