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Irish Breakdown

Notre Dame Linebackers Are Ready For More Improvement

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Football, Sports

4.8748 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A look at the linebacker position for Notre Dame, which should be a strength in 2025

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0:00.0

All right, guys, we talked a lot about the secondary.

0:19.2

And to Brian's point, we probably could have gone on about it for a whole other, at least hour, hour and a half.

0:25.3

But there's some other facets of this defense that we believe were great strengths of this entire unit in 2024.

0:32.9

We're going to kind of start breaking down, where do we see them in 2025?

0:37.1

And kind of working our way, you know, back to front, I think now it's a good time to bring up the linebackers and start talking about what are they going to look like in 2025?

0:46.8

Because they're an interesting group.

0:49.0

You know, last year it was outside of Jack Kaiser, they played a lot of youth.

0:53.3

You know, Jalen Sneed started to come into his own a little bit and started becoming more of a three-down backer,

0:57.8

not too much of a niche pass rusher on third down.

1:02.2

But, I mean, think about it.

1:03.1

I mean, you had Kingston, Villiamma, also playing as a true freshman.

1:05.9

You had Jaden Osbury playing as a redshirt freshman.

1:08.7

And then you had Drake Bowen starting at Mike.

1:11.0

He played the second most snaps, and he was a true sophomore.

1:13.7

And so now you get all these guys back, but a year more experienced.

1:20.1

And there's over 1,800 snaps played between Bowen, Osberry, Viliama Asson, Sneed.

1:27.5

And so when you start looking at this linebacker room, where do you guys start when you start talking about what they could be in 2025?

1:35.3

Because for me, this group has an extremely high ceiling.

1:38.2

I know all three of us on here have been very bullish about how they can absolutely be one of the best linebacking units in the country this upcoming season,

1:45.0

and they absolutely have the tools to do it.

1:48.1

You could make the argument that from like top to bottom, this might be the most experienced group between the three on defense coming back.

1:55.4

You know, secondary at the top is pretty loaded, but there's a lot of youth behind it.

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