Irish Breakdown ranks Notre Dame football’s top 20 defensive players coming out of the spring. Sean Stires and Vince DeDario do the ranking and then jump into more in Rapid Fire.
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Today’s Rapid Fire topics include:
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* Fill-in the blank: After Notre Dame picked up commitments for its 2026 class in back-to-back days with linebacker Jakobe Clapper and then Javion Osborne, who is ranked as high as the No. 6 running back in the nation, any concerns you had after losing Chad Bowden to Southern Cal are BLANK.
* Former Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers plummeted to the seventh round of this year’s NFL Draft and many have questioned why he didn’t return to school and grab a big NIL payday by transferring. His agent made recent comments to ESPN that linked Notre Dame to Ewers this offseason. We discuss their validity.
* The Baltimore Ravens have exercised the fifth-year option on Kyle Hamilton. Notre Dame fans frequently like to say that Hamilton was disrespected and overlooked in the NFL Draft process. Do you Buy or Sell Hamilton disrespect during the draft process?
* Michigan is going the self-imposed suspension route with head coach Sherrone Moore by suspending him for two games this season for the Connor Stalions sign-stealing scandal. Is it a big deal, little deal or no deal?
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* Fill-in the blank: When you think of Michigan football, BLANK is the first thing you think of.
* Since we’re talking about Michigan, let’s take a look at their 2025 schedule and guess their Fan Duel over/under season win total.
* Ross Tucker is the NFL Stadium food guy. He ranks the food spreads at every NFL stadium on his social media accounts. He says mac and cheese is to be eaten as a condiment, not on its own. We share our opinions on that.
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