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Notre Dame State of the Program: Defensive End Recruiting

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Irish Breakdown

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

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In part three of the State of the Union for the Notre Dame defensive end position, the IB team takes a look at recruiting for the position in the 2027 class.

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0:00.0

Brian, there are some other things that we have to talk about.

0:19.7

You know, here on the Irish Breakdown podcast, Bradshaw by our friends over at Fandul,

0:23.2

we just got done talking about, you know, our spring recap almost, kind of the state of the current room.

0:29.9

But that's not going to be the end all, be all for Notre Dame's defensive end room in its entirety.

0:34.5

You have to be able to continue to stack.

0:36.1

Now, in that previous graphic that you brought up,

0:38.8

everybody has junior year eligibility or less,

0:41.9

but let's be real about something.

0:43.6

If Bupakar has the season we believe he's capable of having,

0:47.9

you know, if Bryce Young has a season that he's capable of having,

0:52.0

same thing with Keon-Keeley,

0:53.8

there is a very, very, very, very strong possibility that none of these guys are on the roster past 2027. And so that leaves you in a spot where it's like, okay, does Logan Thomas take some sort of a redshirt or does it continue being a special teams guy? You know, Rodney Dunham and Ebenezer Taday are going to be going into their junior years. And if they're the players we think they could be, that could be their final years,

1:13.9

depending on how that shakes out.

1:15.6

So then you start talking about depth and it starts to look real thin,

1:18.7

which is why the future of this room is very, very important.

1:22.1

It is funny, Trevor.

1:24.2

There's only two classes of eligibility on the roster.

1:28.0

Four juniors and four freshman eligibility players.

1:30.6

That's it.

1:32.0

To your point, the four junior eligibility players literally cannot be on the roster beyond 2027.

1:39.5

They're going to be gone.

1:40.9

So going into the current 2027 recruiting classes, redshirt, freshman,

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