Muscular injuries were and should be expected early in this unique season. Even though Notre Dame’s football players were back on campus in July and working out largely nonstop since then, “that does not mean they are all 100 percent in football shape just yet, given they missed spring practice, offseason conditioning and portions of preseason practice.”
That quote comes from preseason prediction No. 8 in an example of a blind squirrel finding a proverbial nut.
The No. 7 Irish (1-0, 1-0 ACC) expect to be without graduate transfer receiver Ben Skowronek this weekend due to a hamstring injury suffered in the season-opening 27-13 win against Duke on Saturday.