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Notre Dame Football: The Biggest Offseason Storylines for the Irish

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — We’re one week into the offseason, and Notre Dame football has already watched the initial personnel dominoes fall.

Let’s analyze the biggest offseason storylines for the Irish over the next few months. Notre Dame has plenty of holes to replace in 2016 (more on that below), but the Irish are coming off a 10-win season with a crop of returning cogs.

Draft Departures

Jaylon Smith

The conveyor belt out of South Bend started less than 24 hours after Notre Dame’s loss to Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl on New Year’s Day.