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We're second edition of our sort of quick look ahead, a week in preview on Monday show.

And, you know, we're coming off the the NFL draft which got a lot of attention for

not a lot of production Notre Dame wise just quick news round up before we jump into analysis

Ben Coyack seventh round only Notre Dame door selection off to Jacksonville can't make

Daniel cowboys Cody rigs Tennessee Titans Kyle Brins of Detroit Lions devarous Daniels

Minnesota Vikings in terms of the undrafted free agent pickups um Cowboys, Cody Riggs, Tennessee Titans, Kyle Brins, a Detroit Lions, DeVar, Stannels, Minnesota

Vikings are in terms of the undrafted free agent pickups.

But, I mean, it's uphill for any of those guys to make those rosters, so it could be a

complete wash for Notre Dame.

But just, it was interesting to sort of see some of the analysis coming of Notre Dame's

draft, what does it mean, how does this spin forward? And it was interesting to sort of see some of the analysis coming of Notre Dame's draft, what

does it mean, how does this spin forward?

And it was a complete validation of last season.

It was a validation of that recruiting class.

And it has absolutely nothing to do with next year, where these were my three takeaways.

And I wasn't sure how you could really come to any other conclusion.

I thought it's a, I think it's a positive for next year. It's strange that it's probably just a little tidbit that they can say, hey, Stetson has more draft picks on Notre Dame where all the schools they're throwing out there, but it's totally irrelevant. Notre Dame brings back very small senior class, but the guys that remain are, all but Mark Harrell are very much involved. There's pro prospects in there, especially with Kavari Russell coming back to it, Ronnie Stanley. The junior class is one of their best classes in recent memory. There's fifth-year guys coming back that are going to be in that fringe draft area. They're good college players. It happens to work out well for Notre Dame that none of that happened. As we were discussing previously, Tim, do you want to have Ronnie Stanley go in the first round and lose Sheldon Day in the fourth round and say, hey, we have two more draft picks? No, you want them back next year. Yeah, it's a reflection of, well, first of all, Ben Coyack went in the seventh round because he tested terribly in the bench. She ended up being the 15th tight end. I didn't

expect him to fall to the 15th tight in. I guess actually 16th if you include funches in it.

But the reason Nordame had one draft pick is because Stefan Tewitt's gone. Aaron Lynch is gone.

Troy Nicholas is gone. Eishak Williams. The five-star didn't develop. Everett Golson is still here.

Tony Springwind suffered a career ending injury. I mean, you can, Jared Grace, who probably would have stayed around for another year anyway, had a catastrophic injury. So that's all. I mean, if you look at the surface of it, well, yeah, you can say, wow, what Norden do in recruiting that class? but as you know, it was better than that.

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