#8 Jafar Armstrong / Wide Receiver/Running Back
- Height: 6-1
- Weight: 213
- Hometown: Lee's Summit, MO
- School: Bishop Miege
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- National Ranking: 471
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Jafar Armstrong News & Notes
- Notre Dame Transfer Portal
Roster Shuffling Begins: Trio of Notre Dame Players Enter Transfer Portal
With Notre Dame’s season officially over, the off-season roster churn has begun at Notre Dame. Saturday, we learned that at least three 2020 scholarship players for the Irish have decided…
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Breaking Down Notre Dame Football’s Crowded, Unproven Backfield
Notre Dame enters the 2020 season with uncertainty at the running back position. There might not be another single position on the roster that is a bigger question mark. With…
Read More » - Media Coverage
Notre Dame Football Players We Wanted to See This Spring
Over the weekend, Greg and I hopped on the video call with a blast from the UHND forum past – poster Jack Daniels – to record a podcast. We’ve been…
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Lance Taylor Has Work to Do With Notre Dame RB’s This Spring
With Tony Jones Jr deciding to pursue his NFL dreams instead of a 5th year at Notre Dame, the Irish enter the spring with just four scholarship running backs. A…
Read More » - Offense
What Position Should Jafar Armstrong Play For Notre Dame In 2020?
Let’s take a step back to figure out how we got here. In the spring of 2018, Armstrong was set to play wide receiver for Notre Dame, as a redshirt…
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- Analysis
Plenty of Storylines Await Notre Dame Offense This Off-Season
The regular and post-season are over, the recruiting class is signed, and now the time for speculation and narrative begins. It’s the off-season, folks, get into it! Can’t fully start…
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5 Things I Liked in Notre Dame’s Season Finale Win Over Stanford
Notre Dame capped off the regular season on Saturday with a 21 beating of rival Stanford to snap a five-game losing streak on the farm. The Irish started off slow,…
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Overreactions from Notre Dame’s Senior Day Rout of Boston College
Notre Dame capped off another season undefeated at home on Saturday with a 40-7 beating of Boston College that could have actually been a lot worse. Notre Dame was sloppy…
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Fully Integrated Jafar Armstrong Drastically Changes Notre Dame Offense
It was just a glimpse, but it was very telling. Notre Dame opened their season against Louisville with the glorious two back offense Chip Long has been wanting to run…
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Will Jafar Armstrong Provide More Threat or Impact for Notre Dame vs. USC?
Notre Dame’s offense is finally back to full strength this weekend – or at least as close to full strength as it will be in 2019 without Kevin Austin –…
Read More » - Notre Dame Football Injury News & Updates
Notre Dame Could Get RB Jafar Armstrong Back for USC
Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly provided Irish fans with an optimistic update on starting running back Jafar Armstrong on Sunday. Kelly indicated that there is a strong chance the…
Read More » - Notre Dame Football Injury News & Updates
Notre Dame Injury Update: Irish Getting Healthier After Georgia
Notre Dame got one of their offensive playmakers, Cole Kmet, back last weekend and it had a significant impact on the Irish offense. Another playmaker, Michael Young, looks like he…
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Brian Kelly Updates Status of Injured Notre Dame Offensive Starters
By the time Notre Dame finished its first drive on Monday night, they were down three starting offensive players. Cole Kmet and Michael Young entered the game on the injured…
Read More » - Matchups
Key Matchups in Notre Dame’s ’19 Opener vs. Louisville
The 2019 Notre Dame football schedule gets underway on Monday night when the Fighting Irish break new ground by making their first-ever road trip to face the Louisville Cardinals. This…
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Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players for 2019: #11-15
Our countdown of the top 25 players on the Notre Dame football roster for 2019 continues today with the players ranked 11th through 15th. After a healthy dose of defensive…
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Claypool, Armstrong, and Kmet: Who Will Break Out For Notre Dame In 2019?
Notre Dame lost their top running back, wide receiver, and tight end following the 2018 12-1 season. Those three players accounted for 2,360 all-purpose yards, 111 receptions, and 24 total…
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Reassessing Notre Dame’s No So Bare Running Back Cupboard
Notre Dame received one of the biggest verbal commitments they’ve gotten in quite some time last week when top-30 running back Chris Tyree committed to the Irish. It was the…
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Close To The 2017 Recruiting Cycle Paying Huge Dividends For Notre Dame In 2019
The 2016 season was an abject disaster for the Notre Dame football team. The 4-8 record. The loss to Duke at home, the hurricane game, the USC debacle. The program…
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Immediate Overreactions on Offense: 2019 Notre Dame Blue Gold Game
With Notre Dame’s spring football season concluded with yesterday’s nationally televised Blue – Gold game and no football to keep us busy for a few months, it’s overreaction season. It…
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Notre Dame Football: 2 Main Takeaways Following The Spring Game
Football in the spring is such a tease. It ends in January and is mostly gone for two months, only to return in March for five glorious weeks, and then…
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5 Breakout Players for Notre Dame This Spring
The Fighting Irish will be looking to get back to the playoffs in 2019, but will have to replace several key players off of last year’s 12-1 team. With spring…
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Jafar Armstrong Can Be An X-Factor for Notre Dame in Cotton Bowl
The month off between playing USC and Clemson might not do anyone on the Notre Dame offense more good than converted running back Jafar Armstrong. Thrust into the starting lineup…
Read More » - Notre Dame Football Stock Report
2018 Notre Dame Football Stock Report: Week 9
The Irish made it through Navy week with a solid win, but not necessarily unscathed. Drue Tranquill limped off with an ankle injury (that looked a lot worse at the…
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Notre Dame Post Game 6-Pack: Irish Dominant at Times in Win
Notre Dame improved to 8-0 on the season and almost certainly secured their place in the top 4 of the initial playoff rankings that come out on Tuesday. They were…
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The 2018 Notre Dame Football Team Has Yet To Reach Its Peak
There is usually a lot of consternation around the Fighting Irish as the football season reaches the November month. There have been struggles and outright collapses, dating back to 2014.…
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