Notre Dame football freshman LB Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa on his CFP return
Notre Dame football freshman LB Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa on his return to play in the CFP after suffering a knee injury on Nov. 23 vs. Army.
Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa, a sophomore linebacker for Notre Dame, is determined to return to the national championship game after losing to Ohio State.Viliamu-Asa suffered a knee injury last season but recovered and is focused on improving his speed and on-field movement.Viliamu-Asa’s quickness and bend off the edge should enable him to terrorize opposing quarterbacks, starting with Miami’s Carson Beck in Week 1.
SOUTH BEND — For Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa, sophomore linebacker for Notre Dame football, the motivational aspect remains vivid.
In the first raw minutes that followed a 34-23 loss to Ohio State in the national championship game, he made sure to look around the room and burn those painful images into his memory bank.
“I think about sitting in the locker room and seeing my brothers break down and cry,” Viliamu-Asa said Wednesday morning after practice. “The vision for this year is to go back and finish it.”
Having pushed his sprained right knee through a season-high 43 defensive snaps in the title game, Viliamu-Asa came away more determined than ever.
He figures it took him until late February or early March before his knee fully recovered from the scary setback he suffered six snaps into the Army game at Yankee Stadium on Nov. 23.
After sitting out the regular-season finale at USC and a College Football Playoff win over Indiana, he returned as a third-down edge rusher for the Sugar Bowl win over Georgia.
“As soon as he gets hurt,” linebackers coach Max Bullough said, “he’s smart enough, mature enough to know your job flips from playing football to getting back on the field.”
After 13 snaps against…
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Publish date : 2025-04-02 21:38:00
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