Welcome to a special edition of Irish Illustrated Insider.

I'm Tim O'Malley, and today we're going to pivot from our original plan.

We're going to have a conversation with CBS Sports NFL draft analyst, Krista PASO.

We're going to do that next week because we had a bit of a scheduling conflict.

And this is actually a well-time pivot because we're going to talk about the 2025 fighting Irish going into spring ball.

And less than 24 hours ago,

Notre Dame introduced not only new general manager Mike Martin, but also had head football athletic

trainer Rob Hunt speak to the media, and he provided the most detailed injury report in the history

of a press conference. Now, we're not going to get into that as much detail here. It's going to be

written about all week at Irish Illustrated.

And if you'd like a review of what happened yesterday, you can go to Thursday's normal Irish

Illustrated Insider podcast with Tim Priester, Pete Sampson, John Bryce, and myself.

And we did run down every injury in four different categories.

But let's consider this as Sprigg essay.

And because a quarterback was part of

the injury report in the fall, very brief injury report that we found out, maybe we should have had

a little more information. Now, we're going to start the quarterback position. CJ Carras, but in the

talk of the offseason, of course, his injury was confirmed by Hunt that it occurred in practice.

It was always going to be a 10 to 12

week plan. Well, that gets him back now for the spring. There are four players, three potential

starters, and one tough choice to make this spring. That tough choice isn't who's going to start

because I don't think they're coming up with the start of the spring. It's who's number three

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