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This room looks……Different
Welcome to Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Positional Hot Takes. As a reminder to all of the readers, this is HEAVILY driven by you and comments are strongly encouraged. The thought here is to bring in your HOT takes only as this is the off season. The payoff will be much longer, but these pages will live in perpetuity (big word) for you to tell your friends, family, and strangers that you, “called it”. Since this isn’t geared towards specific games, I will go position by position with my own takes.
Now……talk about a room that went from complete and utter liability to…..dare I say…..strength? A year ago the room was led by 3 freshman (1 walk on), a converted running back, and a banged up Jayden Thomas. It often felt like they could not field a full rotation, struggled to get separation, and 50/50 balls were closer to 20/80. This year is going to be quiiiiite different. The additions of proven commodities Kris Mitchell, Beaux Collins, Jayden Harrison will make a huge impact as well as the continued growth of playmakers Jaden Greathouse and Jordan Faison. Jayden Thomas should be healthy and is a legit WR2 and a phenomenal blocker. On top of that, there are wildcards in Deion Colzie, KK Smith, and talented freshman Logan Saldate, Cam Williams, and Micah Gilbert. The room is obviously close…..highlighted by the fact that no one transferred out post Spring. This doesn’t even mention the addition of Mike Denbrock calling the shots and Riley Leonard at the helm.
5 “WR” have touchdowns over 60 yards
A year ago, there were not many deep threats at all. Tobias Merriweather was promising, but never delivered. Faison had the speed, but didn’t get involved until late in the season. This year is obviously different as you have speed, talent, and depth, which should create some mismatches. I fully expect Faison, Mitchell, and Greathouse to beat guys with great routes and speed and have some deep streaking touchdowns like we haven’t seen since Kizer to Fuller. Jayden Harrison will make someone miss and take one to the house. I am cheating a bit here, but expect Jeremiyah Love to be matched up against a LB (pray for his soul) and to beat him off the line and not look back. Another factor going into this is QB play. Every single guy can distribute the football and each one would be starting in 2022.
Jaden Greathouse leads the team in receptions, yards, and touchdowns.
I strongly believe he would have led the team in all these categories a year ago if not for the injured hamstring. This clearly hurt his ability to get separation and lingered all season long. Every report out of spring camp indicates that he is faster, leaner, and running even crisper routes. He has the best hands on the team and now with a year under his belt and plenty of weapons around him…..will flourish. On top of that, he recently switched to #1, which makes him at LEAST 0.1 faster in the forty. Look for Greathouse to top 50 receptions and close to 750 yards. A sneaky one here, but don’t sleep on Logan Saldate, who is taking over #19 for Greathouse. He is the most underrated guy in the in the class in my opinion. If some injuries pop up, I would not be surprised to see him carve out a role late in the year….
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