Notre Dame suffered its first casualty of the spring before its first full contact practice. Brian Kelly announced Wednesday that junior defensive tackle Elijah Taylor was lost for the spring at least with a lisfranc fracture in his foot. The announcement made some news, but didn’t cause too much of a stir among Notre Dame fans today. It should have.
Brian Kelly expressed some optimism about the defensive line on Wednesday stating that Notre Dame was deeper than people thought in the defensive trenches. Name a coach who isn’t optimistic this time of the year. Yes, Notre Dame has a lot of bodies along the defensive line but outside of Daniel Cage and Jerry Tillery those bodies are a whole bunch of question marks.