How many running backs are too many running backs? In college football, the presumed answer has always focused on a lack of a limit, but Notre Dame may test that in 2020. With an incoming graduate transfer possibly on the horizon, the Irish could have as many as eight running backs on the roster by the fall.
Furthering that logjam, the one among them most logical to get the fewest carries is also arguably the most talented of the bunch. (That is not a prediction of the workload distribution, simply an observation of logic.)
Spring roster:
— Rising senior Jafar Armstrong, with two years of eligibility remaining
— Either Jahmir Smith or C’Bo Flemister or Kyren Williams
— Former quarterback, former cornerback, possibly future cornerback Avery Davis
— Fifth-year former walk-on Mick Assaf
Summer arrivals:
One would never know it by the heaping projections upon the incoming freshman running back, but if going by rivals.