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Notre Dame Makes Big Moves In The Transfer Portal

Irish Breakdown

Irish Breakdown

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

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Notre Dame finally landed players from the portal. It took awhile but the Irish hit it big, landing four players to kick things off.

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0:00.0

Welcome back, everyone to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast podcast brought to you by our friends over at Fandu.

0:24.1

Happy Monday.

0:24.7

Hope everybody had a good, relaxing weekend.

0:28.3

We have great news for you, folks.

0:29.9

We can finally take a deep breath because now all of the transfer portal process is starting to unfold.

0:35.8

Notre Dame fans can kind of take that sigh of relief.

0:38.4

And now the offseason is in full swing. Notre Dame has transfer portal commits. And that's how we're going to kick off today's show. We're going to start by talking about the transfer portal, who they've gotten so far, what are kind of the next steps here. We're going to break down each player, what they mean to the team, the Notre Dame fit. We're going to break them down individually as players.

0:55.6

Part two of today's show.

0:57.1

We're going to be talking about C.J. Carr. It was our friends over at Fainville released their kind of like way too early Hizman odds for 26 and we're going to break down where C.J. Fell and that had an article come out about it this morning to the surprise of probably nobody in

1:11.4

this chat. CJ Carr has held in pretty high regard and then we're going to wrap up today show

1:15.0

with the mailbag folks. So a lot of things happened really in the last six hours. So if you want

1:21.3

your questions answered, get those in and be for mailbag mailbox emoji lets us know to set that

1:26.2

question aside. But brian everybody can

1:28.7

finally take a deep breath and relax notre dame has transfer portal commits this is a good day man

1:32.4

yeah i mean some of these have been done for a few days uh keon keely's been done for a few days

1:38.5

dj mckinney's been done for a few days basically what happened we'll explain what happened there

1:43.9

the other day when when we get there.

1:46.2

But, you know, look, I think there's some more that are done.

1:50.5

You know, Quentin Porter was one that Notre Dame really had to close well on.

1:55.0

And, you know, we'll get into that.

1:56.7

But look, here's the deal.

1:59.0

There's things that we're going to be able to discuss at some point, time in the near future, Trevor, about what went wrong in this process and how things, you know, didn't go incredibly smoothly and things along those lines. However, as we said, let's let the process play out because this is still Notre Dame and this is still Marcus Freeman as the head coach and you still have Mike Mickens and you you still have Mike Denbrock and you still have, you know what I mean? Like there's, there's, they have money. You know, that's not necessarily an issue. I don't think they always handled some negotiations well with the GM. But, you know, we'll explain all that. We'll explain why they took this player, why they took that player and have some fun with it, but I don't think they're done. I do think there's at least two more position players that they

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