Notre Dame Defensive Tackles Will Look Much Different In 2026
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everyone, to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to by our friends over at Fandual. |
| 0:23.8 | Happy Thursday, everybody. |
| 0:24.8 | Another week of the offseason is coming to a close. |
| 0:28.1 | But not before we had the chance to talk about some Notre Dame defensive tackles today, Brian. |
| 0:32.0 | That's what's on the docket. |
| 0:32.8 | We're going to break down just really the overview look of the Notre Dame defensive tackleroom, keeping up with our preview of the position rooms. Last week, I believe, or a couple weeks ago, days are starting to blend together. We talked about the Notre Dame defense events. Now it's time to turn our attention to the interior of the defensive line. And then today we're also going to talk about, you know, what Charlie Partridge's impact is going to be. We're going to give a breakdown of the room, you know, up and comers, vets coming in. Obviously, we're going to highlight the transfer players as well. And then we're going to wrap everything up by talking about what we think will be the top 10 defensive tackle, or defensive line units in the country at the end of the regular season, really more projection moving forward. |
| 1:12.0 | And then we are going to have a mailback today, folks. |
| 1:13.8 | So Travis Bicill holds glasses. |
| 1:15.8 | Already got a head start. |
| 1:17.4 | Got a mailbag question in there. |
| 1:18.7 | So feel free to go ahead and throw some in as the show goes on. |
| 1:22.0 | But Brian, we have another awesome show today. |
| 1:24.2 | I'm ready to talk some Notre Dame football and talk some defensive tackles because |
| 1:26.9 | this is a position group that's probably pretty underrated on the national |
| 1:31.7 | scale, but poised for a big season. I think that's been true for several years, Trev. I mean, |
| 1:36.6 | I think we could look at the defensive tackles at Notre Dame for the last two, three seasons |
| 1:41.0 | and say that for the most part, they're very underrated nationally. |
| 1:46.5 | And, you know, look, you at an All-American in 2003 and Howard Cross, Riley Mills was pretty |
| 1:51.3 | good that season as well, especially second half of the year. You know, 2024, Riley Mills |
| 1:55.7 | has an All-American season, back-to-back years with All-American. So, I mean, there's clearly |
| 1:59.8 | not being completely overlooked, but I think while there's been some All-American status, Riley Mills made like |
| 2:06.9 | one All-American team. He should have made more, you know, and then you look at the ability of this |
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