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SOUTH BEND — Despite being sidelined over the final 10 games of Notre Dame football’s run to the CFP championship game, junior cornerback Benjamin Morrison lived up to his captaincy by serving as an unofficial assistant coach.
Morrison, who announced Thursday his long-expected plan to enter the 2025 NFL Draft, packed his days and nights with rehab from mid-October left hip surgery, as well as counsel and film study alongside first-year starting corners Christian Gray and Leonard Moore.
“Ben has been great,” Mike Mickens, Irish defensive backs coach and defensive pass-game coordinator, said recently. “He’s a leader. He has a great bond with those guys, a great bond with the two young corners, which is great. They have somebody that has been through it and will be able to give his knowledge to them.”
Morrison, who made 26 starts and had nine interceptions in 2 ½ seasons, thanked Mickens and his wife Jessica via social media post in foregoing his final year of eligibility.
“Coach Mickens, thank you for taking a chance on a skinny kid from Arizona,” Morrison wrote on social media. “You saw something and believed in me when others didn’t, and I’ll forever be grateful to you and Mrs. Jessica for the countless ways you’ve supported me.”
A freshman All-American in 2022 after moving into the starting lineup in Week 3 against California, Morrison broke out with a three-interception game against Clemson that November that included a 96-yard interception return for a touchdown, the longest in Notre Dame Stadium history.
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Morrison, listed at 6-foot and 190 pounds, added three more picks in 2023, when he led the Irish with 10 pass breakups.
Projected as a top-10 overall pick entering his junior season, the…
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Publish date : 2025-01-23 19:19:00
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