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Notre Dame Football Mailbag - Part III

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Irish Breakdown

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

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Irish Breakdown answers questions about Notre Dame Football

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0:00.0

All right. Let's get to this one from it. NB. It just means more.

0:24.3

Who, in your opinion, has a better chance to make first, second team, All America this year?

0:29.9

Great House, Wagner, Bowen, Schuller, or Rairden?

0:36.5

First or second team all over, who has a better chance?

0:40.0

Of that group, I would go with either Amel Wagner or Drake Bowen.

0:47.5

I think all those guys could be that.

0:49.9

Jaden Graedhouse, I just don't think,

0:51.3

we've talked about this a lot, Trevor.

0:53.8

For a receiver to make first or second team, he's got to put up big numbers. I don't care if you're the most effective receiver in college football. If the volume's not there, you're just not going to be first or second team. So that's my deal there. Don Schuller, a lot of that's driven by perception and interceptions and things like that. He certainly has a chance. And Eli Rairden has a chance. But Eli's struggle is going to be, he's going to have to put up monster numbers to overcome the fact that he's not really going into the season as someone that people are looking at as one of the best tight ends. But he's certainly capable of it as well. And Neil Wagner's getting loved like preseason.

1:27.8

Because like, you and I talked about this in the past. It's like a lot of All-American lists are

1:32.7

partly by your play, but the guys that come in the season with with sort of the high

1:37.6

expectations a lot of times will get that unless you have volume. Nobody was talking about

1:41.4

Xavier Watts being an All-American coming to 2023. But then the volume was there. And then, you know, seven interceptions leads the country. He has the huge prime time game where he picks off Caleb Williams twice and returns a pump war touchdown. If he doesn't have that game and his numbers are the same, he's probably not a unanimous all-American. That's just, that's what factors into those things. It's not right or not wrong.

2:01.9

Right.

2:02.0

It just is what it is.

2:03.0

And with offensive linemen, if you're getting preseason love,

2:06.2

unless you do something that's like really bad,

2:09.7

with offensive linemen, it's about name recognition.

2:12.0

It's about these lists preseason.

2:14.0

And that's why I would go with Emil Wagner on this list because of that reason.

2:20.3

Yeah, I'm with you guys.

2:21.7

It's Wagner and Bowen for me.

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