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Draft Scout College Football Player News: Notre Dame
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Kyren Williams ran for 112 yards and two touchdowns in his first start, grad quarterback Ian Book threw for 263 yards and No. 10 Notre Dame beat Duke 27-13 on Saturday at rainy Notre Dame Stadium in the season and Atlantic Coast Conference opener for bot h teams. The speedy Williams, who saw limited action last season as a freshman, had 19 carries and also was Notre Dame's leading receiver with two receptions for 93 yards, one a 75-yarder in the first half. The victory was Notre Dame's 19th straight at h ome and the first for the Fighting Irish in a conference after 132 years as an independent. Because of COVID-19, the Irish are playing this season as a member of the ACC.The school announced a crowd of 10,097, 90% of them students, attended the ga me in the 77,622-seat stadium where fans were wearing masks and socially distanced because of the pandemic. The triumph also came on a day when the school announced a four-year contract extension for coach Brian Kelly, who is now 9-2 in openers at Notre Dame. Book outdueled Duke grad quarterback Chase Brice, who threw for 259 yards on 20-of-37 passing and rushed for a touchdown in his debut for coach David Cutcliffe after transferring in from Clemson. Book, who rushed for 139 yards and passed for 181 ya rds and four touchdowns last season in Notre Dame's 38-7 victory at Duke, completed 19 of 31 passes, one a 17-yard TD pass to Avery Davis early in the fourth quarter that increased the Irish lead to 24-13. He rushed for just 12 yards on nine carries. - A P College/Notre Dame Football
rSo/2022  RB *Kyren Williams, Notre Dame
News Source: AP College/Notre Dame Football
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Quarterback Sam Hartman is replacing Newman and is a player the Tigers are familiar with. The Charlotte native started nine games as a true freshman in 2018, including against Clemson. Hartman has played in 13 games so far in his career. He has completed 56 percent of his passes for 2,814 yards, with 20 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. - The State
rSr/2024  QB Sam Hartman, Notre Dame
News Source: The State
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Irish quarterback Ian Book had four passing touchdowns last season in Notre Dame's 38-7 win over Duke in Durham, but hurt the Blue Devils as much with his legs than his arm. Book rushed 12 times for 139 yards, the most for a Notre Dame QB since 1996. By year's end, he was the first Irish quarterback to pass for 2,500 yards, rush for 500 and have 30 TD passes in a season. Book is back. A graduate student, he will be in his third year as the starter. "He's very good at keeping plays alive," Duke safety Mi chael Carter II said Tuesday. "He's difficult to tackle but we've got to put the pressure on him and be aggressive." - Duke Chronicle
rSr/2021 QB Ian Book, Notre Dame
News Source: Duke Chronicle
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In Saturday's season opener against Duke (2:30 p.m. EDT on NBC), 6-foot-4, 219-pound free safety Kyle Hamilton will roam the secondary alongside 5-foot-9, 180-pound strong safety Shaun Crawford. Despite head coach Brian Kelly repeatedly mentioning Crawfo rd at safety throughout the preseason, the reality of him stepping into the starting lineup at the position to start his sixth season at Notre Dame finally set in with Monday's depth chart release. Crawford, a cornerback for most of his career, worked at safety last preseason too. He was always a reserve option with secondary experience at a position that lacked depth. But the 2020 roster appeared to have other answers at the safety position with junior Houston Griffith settling into the position after switching from cornerback too and Ohio State grad transfer Isaiah Pryor joining the program. Crawford's emergence will keep them waiting. "We didn't come into camp expecting (Crawford) to win it," Kelly said. "We came into camp expecting him to be a plac eholder at that position. He came out and won that position. We are a better football team with Shaun playing the position." - South Bend Tribune
rSr/2021 FS Shaun Crawford, Notre Dame
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2021 SENIOR BOWL WATCH LIST: Adentokunbo Ogundeji, Notre Dame,...A mainstay on the Irish defense, graduate student Ogundeji totaled 34 tackles in 2019 (seven for loss) and 4.5 sacks in 2019. Playing in all 13 games, he also forced three fumbles and recov ered another, returning it 23 yards for a touchdown vs. Virginia. - Notre Dame Football
rSr/2021 DE Adetokunbo Ogundeji, Notre Dame
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2021 SENIOR BOWL WATCH LIST: Tommy Kraemer, Notre Dame,...Kraemer started the first seven games in 2019 before suffering a season-ending knee injury at Michigan...Did not allow a sack, while conceding just one QB hit and three hurries, on 2020 pass-block snaps on the year. - Notre Dame Football
rSr/2021  OG Tommy Kraemer, Notre Dame
News Source: Notre Dame Football
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2021 SENIOR BOWL WATCH LIST: Daelin Hayes, Notre Dame,...Graduate student Hayes was selected to both the AFCA Good Works Team watch list, which honors a student-athlete's impact off the field, and the 2020 Wuerffel Trophy Watch List, known as "College Fo otball's Premier Award for Community Service." He played in four games in 2019 prior to suffering a season-ending shoulder injury against Virginia. Over those games, he recorded six tackles (three for loss) and a sack. In his career, Hayes has totaled 78 tackles (14.5 TFL) in 41 games. - Notre Dame Football
rSr/2021 DE Daelin Hayes, Notre Dame
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2021 SENIOR BOWL WATCH LIST: Robert Hainsey, Notre Dame,...A candidate for the 2020 William V. Campbell Trophy, recognizing the nation's top football senior scholar-athlete, Hainsey begins his true senior campaign following a season in which he did not a llow a sack on 423 snaps (252 pass plays), and conceded just two QB hits and six QB hurries. The 2019 team captain and four-time offseason workout captain (SWAT captain) started the first eight games last season before suffering a season-ending injury ag ainst Virginia Tech, and was honored as team Offensive Lineman of the Year. - Notre Dame Football
Sr/2021 OG Robert Hainsey, Notre Dame
News Source: Notre Dame Football
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2021 SENIOR BOWL WATCH LIST: Liam Eichenberg, Notre Dame,...Eichenberg started all 13 games of the year at left tackle in 2019...One of three offensive linemen to start every game for a group named to the Joe Moore Award Midseason Watch List...Helped the Irish rank 13th nationally in scoring offense and 11th in sacks allowed. - Notre Dame Football
rSr/2021 OT Liam Eichenberg, Notre Dame
News Source: Notre Dame Football
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2021 SENIOR BOWL WATCH LIST: Ian Book, Notre Dame,...Book returns as the starter in 2020, marking the first time the Irish enter a season with a quarterback boasting at least two seasons of majority of games started (23-of-26 games from 2018-19) since J immy Clausen in 2009 (22-of 25-games from 2007-08). Already named to the Manning Award, Maxwell Trophy and O'Brien Award watch lists for 2020, the 2019 team captain and Notre Dame Offensive Player of the Year finished the season 240-for-399 with 3,034 ya rds and 34 touchdowns, throwing just six interceptions. He also ran 112 times for 546 yards and four touchdowns. - Notre Dame Football
rSr/2021 QB Ian Book, Notre Dame
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Head Football Coach Brian Kelly announced five team captains for Notre Dame's 2020 football campaign this fall. They include returning 2019 captains QB Ian Book and OL Robert Hainsey, as well as first-time captains S Shaun Crawford, DL Daelin Hayes and D L Adetokunbo Ogundeji. Book and Hainsey earn the role as rare two-time captains, just the 23rd and 24th Notre Dame players in the program's 131-season history to ever serve multiple seasons as a team captain. More than 200 players have served in the capt ain role for Irish Football. - Notre Dame Football
rSr/2021 DE Adetokunbo Ogundeji, Notre Dame
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Left alone to stew in the darkness of his abrupt free fall into an afterthought last fall, Kyren Williams doubled down on who he believed he could be in a Notre Dame uniform someday. In the weeks and months that followed, the now-Notre Dame sophomore run ning back even managed to exceed his own lofty expectations. On Tuesday during a Zoom conference call with the media, Irish head coach Brian Kelly let the college football world know just how much Williams had exceeded them. "Kyren Williams has really em erged as somebody we feel right now has gained an advantage as the top back right now," Kelly said of a player who had all of five touches as a freshman in 2019 and none after game 2 of that season. "He's going to require, obviously, some assistance at t hat position from a number of other guys. We're not just going to feature one back. But Kyren's done a great job."Williams gives Notre Dame a better version of himself than the Irish saw at any time from him as an early enrollee, and an impressive one at that in the time leading up to the 2019 season. He had bulked up to 204 pounds after his senior season in high school, figuring he'd need the extra bulk to absorb the punishing blows from college defenders, and was pushing 210 on his 5-9 frame wh en he first met up with Stanfield in the spring. "He's in the 193-195 range now," Stanfield said. "But the biggest difference in who he was and who he is now is speed. Straight-line speed. He always had the agility to make people miss, but now he can run away from them, too." - South Bend Tribune
rSo/2022 RB *Kyren Williams, Notre Dame
News Source: South Bend Tribune
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Notre Dame declared Isaiah Robertson as medically disqualified earlier this month. On Tuesday, the former Irish wide receiver entered his name into the NCAA transfer portal. Robertson, a senior, told the Tribune he is seeking a graduate transfer and is o n pace to graduate from Notre Dame in December. He said he's uncertain if his medical disqualification will make the transfer process more complicated, but he wants to get his name out there for other colleges. Notre Dame didn't disclose Robertson's inju ry when it announced his medical disqualification Aug. 12. Robertson did not answer a question sent to him via text message about his injury either. If Robertson can work out a graduate transfer, he could have multiple years of eligibility remaining. He qualified for a redshirt in 2019 by not playing in any games and won't play again this season. The NCAA Division I board of directors also voted last Friday to give all fall sport athletes an additional year of eligibility and an additional year to compl ete it with a blanket waiver. - South Bend Tribune
rSr/2022 WR Isaiah Robertson, Notre Dame
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2020 PRESEASON ALL-SUN BELT CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM (COACHES): K - Blake Grupe, Arkansas State,...Grupe enters the 2020 season having made 47 consecutive extra points for the third longest streak in school history...First Team All-Sun Belt Conference selec tion in 2019...Lou Groza Award semifinalist...Burlsworth Trophy nominee...Two-time Sun Belt Special Teams Player of the Week...110 points by kicking broke the single-season school record, were the second most in the Sun Belt and ranked 13th in the nation ...Made 19-of-22 field goals for an .864 percentage that led the conference and ranked 16th in the FBS. - Arkansas State Football
rSr/2023 K Blake Grupe, Notre Dame
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2020 PRESEASON ALL-CONFERENCE USA TEAM (COACHES): OL Cain Madden, R-Sr., Marshall,...Madden was also named to the Outland Trophy watch list, which is an award given to the nation's top interior lineman. He was a breakout player on the offensive side of t he ball for Marshall in 2019, as he was part of a unit that helped power a running game that finished second in the league in rushing yards and rushing yards per game. - Marshall Football
rSr/2022 OG Cain Madden, Notre Dame
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