With Tony Jones Jr deciding to pursue his NFL dreams instead of a 5th year at Notre Dame, the Irish enter the spring with just four scholarship running backs. A fifth arrives in the summer in speedster Chris Tyree, but for the spring, Lance Taylor has his work cut out for him with a group that is still very much unproven.
Taylor got a lot out of Tony Jones Jr in 2019 – much more than Jones had produced through his first two seasons of action. So. we’ve already seen Taylor do precisely what Notre Dame envisioned he would do – improve the production at the running back position.