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Notre Dame Football Mailbag - Part II

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

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🗓️ 22 March 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The Notre Dame Football Mailbag was jam-packed with a ton of great questions about the Fighting Irish!

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0:00.0

Indy just means more. Do you see any potential, which is coming due to what happens in the spring?

0:25.5

Yeah, I think something will happen.

0:27.1

I mean, somebody's going to move from tackle to guard or guard to tackle or center to guard or guard to center, tackle to center.

0:33.5

You know, I could see, you know, somebody is going to, you know, potentially move into Nickel, which is considered a different position right now. It's Devante Smith than Ben Minnick. You know, I could see somebody who, who, hey, we really like this kid at Nickel, but we want to give him a shot to battle for the starting job at safety or corner or something like that. And then if he doesn't, then you move him to nickel.

1:00.2

Like, for example, if, you know, I really like Carson Hobbs as a nickel, potential nickel,

1:05.8

which I view as a starting position because he's strong, he's physical. I think he could be a good run defender. So right now I'm going to give him a shot to challenge at center, at corner,

1:10.1

because you've got your starting nickel.

1:11.5

But like if he shows me some certain traits and Dallas Golden and Mark Zachary start to show me something when they get here in the fall, either this, you know, maybe coming into the season or maybe it's next spring, I could see a scenario where I'm like, hey, we're going to move Carson over to nickel during the season to let him get some work there and see how he does, because then maybe we don't need to go to the portal next year to get a nickel because we like Carson.

1:37.2

Or you could talk about maybe Dallas Golden is that guy because Carson proves himself so much as a corner that you're like,

1:44.4

hey, we're going to leave him there because, man, he's really good.

1:46.8

And that gives us more, we're more now prone to move Dallas inside or Mark Zachary inside

1:53.6

or Cree inside because how much we love what Carson has done at Corner and then what some of

1:58.9

these other guys have done at Corner.

2:00.1

So there will be some stuff like that that ultimately results in position switches,

2:05.4

whether it be end of spring, fall, those type of thing.

2:09.4

So in that regard, Trev, I do think we will see some position movement.

2:14.8

Will we see anything like what I want to see, like Preston,

2:17.5

or going from linebacker to tight end? I doubt it now because I think if we were going to see

2:23.7

that, we would have already seen that. But, you know, I hope I'm wrong. I do hope I'm wrong,

2:29.5

but that's kind of my stance on that one. But yeah, we'll definitely see some things that'll happen.

2:34.3

And that's true every year.

2:35.3

Every year you see some sort of even minimal position movement because of those type of things.

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