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Notre Dame Football Mailbag - Part III

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Irish Breakdown

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

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Irish Breakdown answers questions about Notre Dame Football, Irish Recruiting and college football in the latest mailbag

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0:00.0

Brian, we're still rolling here on the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by our friends over at Fan duel.

0:21.4

We got the Friday free-for-all mailbag going on and getting us kicked off here in the next part.

0:26.2

We have Sean Stewart.

0:28.3

What will the percentage of passes, what will the percentage of passes go to the wide receivers,

0:33.3

tight-ins and running backs this season?

0:35.8

I think honestly, Trevor, it's going to be about the same as it was last year.

0:40.8

I still believe that Notre Dame is still going to throw to the tight ends a decent amount.

0:47.0

I think the one thing that there's a world in which they throw to the tight ends more this season

0:51.9

because, and not from a volume standpoint, because if they throw to the tight ends more this season because, and not from a volume standpoint,

0:56.3

because if they throw more passes, the tight ends catch more passes, even if the

1:00.4

percentage doesn't change at all. They'll naturally catch more passes. But I could see them

1:05.7

maybe taken a little bit away from the running back pass game. And the reason I say that is, is because I could see they're going to still design some stuff for Nias Williams and things like that. But like, I don't know that you're going to design as much in the past game for him. So maybe more of what he does is like checkdowns and things like that with some designed runs, design catches. But more so from a standpoint of like,

1:28.0

I think if a position gets hurt by how good the receivers are,

1:31.1

I think it would be running backs more than tight ends.

1:33.9

Just because if defenses start focusing more and more and more

1:37.5

on stopping the receivers,

1:39.1

the tight ends are going to be the first beneficiary of that

1:41.9

and then running back second.

1:43.7

So I don't think that percentage is going to change a whole lot.

1:46.7

And I think what will be different if you're going to say what percentage of the

1:50.4

catches will be by the number one tight end, that might change.

1:55.0

They might be spread out a little bit more where Cooper doesn't have the Urily

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