One of the deepest rooms on the defensive side of the ball for Notre Dame is their linebackers, with multiple top-end players led by junior Drayk Bowen.
Following practice on Sunday, linebackers coach Max Bullough met with the media and went over what he is looking for from his unit. There are four specific traits, as Mike Berardino who shared the post put it: tough, smart, competitive and elite communicator.
That unique aspect of this is that the Irish don’t go after players to develop these traits, they go and recruit them. Look at some of the recent linebackers that have entered the program and played early like Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa. You won’t see the field if you can’t have all four of them, and he showed last fall that he’s got them.
Bowen gets plenty of publicity, and rightfully so, but the others who are expected to contribute like Jaylen Sneed, KVA, and Jaiden Ausberry all posses the traits as well. This should be another very good year for Notre Dame with its linebacker play, and a lot of credit has to go to Bullough getting his unit prepared.
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Reporting by Michael Chen , Fighting Irish Wire / Fighting Irish Wire
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