With 10:17 left before halftime in Notre Dame’s 35-17 victory over the Louisville Cardinals on Labor Day night this past Monday, Irish safety Kyle Hamilton shot from the first-down marker on your television screens up to the line of scrimmage to make a tackle in the A-gap against Cardinals tailback Hassan Hall.
Hall’s quickness jolted him past the 6-foot-4 freshman for a 15-yard gain before Julian Okwara pulled Hall to the ground, giving the underdog Cardinals their sixth run of 10+ yards in the contest already.
As you’ll hear in the quick breakdown from ESPN color commentator Kirk Herbstreit in the clip below, Hamilton was in the right place with the proper timing of his run up to the LOS, but looked like a kid playing in his first college football game.