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Notre Dame Defense Will Have A Freshman Flavor In 2024

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Football, Sports, Notre Dame, Ncaa Team, Big Ten, Nfl Draft

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🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Notre Dame's freshman class will have a chance to make a big impact in 2024. In part two of the most recent IB show, Bryan dives into the freshmen on defense that will have the best chance to make an impact this season. Shop for Irish Breakdown gear at our online store: https://ibstore.irishbreakdown.com/  Join the Irish Breakdown premium message board: https://boards.irishbreakdown.com  Stay locked into Irish Breakdown for all the latest news and analysis about Notre Dame: https://www.irishbreakdown.com​ Subscribe to the Irish Breakdown podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/irish-breakdown/id1485286986 Like and follow Irish Breakdown on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/irishbreakdown Sign up for the FREE Irish Breakdown daily newsletter: https://www.subscribepage.com/irish-breakdown-newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right.

0:01.0

All right. Let's talk a little defense. The Notre Dame defensive class is very interesting because it's a pretty good defensive class. And there's no doubt about it. But they're also walking into a situation where we've got a pretty loaded depth chart coming back. You've got a lot of defensive

0:39.2

linemen coming back, a lot of veterans stepping into roles. You've got a, your linebacker

0:43.6

class was really good. They followed up another really good linebacker class, which makes

0:48.7

a little bit more challenging. You've got a really good corner class coming in who follow

0:53.5

a pretty good, two pretty good corner classes. and you see kind of where it's going.

0:58.1

So it's going to be difficult for a lot of the freshman defensive players to earn significant playing time as rookies without there being injuries.

1:08.7

Having said that, I do believe the freshman class will make an impact on defense this year.

1:14.6

And so, again, we'll do instant impact players.

1:17.7

We'll do guys that have key rotational roles, and then we'll have guys who are going to be red shirts.

1:22.2

And so let's kick things off, obviously talking about the instant impact players.

1:26.9

And I have two.

1:28.4

I believe that there could be a third if there are injuries. But as of now, barring, you know,

1:37.7

something that's unforeseen, I have two guys. And I'm going to start off up front. And that's

1:42.3

with Bryce Young. Now, technically,

1:44.7

Bryce Young right now is third string on the depth chart, right? Let's, I mean, that's the reality,

1:49.0

but he's going to play. And I love the big end position. They just, Notre Dame just calls it

1:54.7

defensive end. That's the field spot and then Vipers, the weak side boundary spot. So when we say

2:00.7

defensive end, we're, you know, for Notre Dame's defense, we're talking about that big end

2:04.0

position.

2:05.2

I love the depth there.

2:06.5

You've got RJ Open coming in from Duke.

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