With only one week remaining in spring practices, Brian Kelly increasingly thinks Notre Dame has found a few cornerbacks to lean on as back-end support for defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman’s aggressive scheme, but that could have waited until August if need be. Truthfully, there is only one must to any year’s 15 spring practices, and through 12 of them, the Irish have largely achieved that must.
They have remained healthy. (Knock on wood.)
Rising junior safety Kyle Hamilton (ankle), senior receiver Kevin Austin (foot) and senior linebacker Paul Moala (Achilles) have all started running, and fifth-year linebacker Drew White has returned to practice after suffering a high-ankle sprain earlier this spring.