Sheldon Day News & Notes
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Notre Dame’s 2016 NFL Rookies Impresing Early
While the 2016 Notre Dame Fighting Irish are just three days into their fall camp, many of their former teammates who are now pursuing their NFL dreams have been working…
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Notre Dame Now Producing NFL Draft Picks with Star Power
When Brian Kelly took over as head coach of Notre Dame’s football program in December of 2009, he had his work cut out for him. In addition to inheriting a…
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Sheldon Day, Jaylon Smith, Will Fuller Named USA Today All Americans
Notre Dame landed a trio of players on the 2015 USA Today All-American team with defensive stalwarts Sheldon Day and Jaylon being named 1st Team All-Americans and speedster wide receiver…
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Stars Must Align for Notre Dame Against Stanford
Wherever Notre Dame ended up in the latest college football playoff rankings, winning at Stanford to close out the 2015 regular season was always a must. The Irish have already…
Read More » - Notre Dame Defensive Line
Sheldon Day Emerging as Notre Dame’s Defensive Leader
Sheldon Day has been a captain for Notre Dame for the past two seasons now, but it hasn’t been until the last few weeks that Notre Dame’s stout defensive end…
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- Players of the Week
Notre Dame v. Navy ’15: Shamrock Stickers
Notre Dame bounced back from its first loss of the season with a convincing 41-24 victory over Navy on Saturday. The Irish started off slow struggling to contain Navy’s triple…
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Notre Dame v. UMass: Shamrock Stickers
Notre Dame overcame a sluggish start on Saturday to cruise to an easy 62-27 victory over UMass in the Minutemen’s first ever visit to Notre Dame Stadium for the first…
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Defenders with Attitude
In civilian life, a “chip on the shoulder” is often a precursor for conflict.
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A Pre-Spring Ranking of Notre Dame’s Starting Defense
We take a pre-Spring Practice look at the putative defensive starters. This may well change during Spring practice or in the Fall. The middle linebacker situation remains fluid, but suddently…
Read More » - NFL & 5th Year Decisions
Sheldon Day’s Return Huge Boost for Notre Dame
Earlier this month it was reported that Notre Dame junior Shledon Day had already decided he was returning to Notre Dame for a senior season, but there had been some…
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Report: Sheldon Day Staying at Notre Dame for SR Season
According to a report from Irish Illustrated earlier on Tuesday, Notre Dame senior to be Sheldon Day will be returning to Notre Dame after receiving a “stay in school” grade…
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Notre Dame v Michigan Shamrock Stickers
Notre Dame closed out its series with Michigan by making a statement to the Wolverines and the rest of college football. The Irish dominated on both sides of the ball…
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Notre Dame v. Rice Shamrock Stickers
The Irish started their season off on the right foot with a dominating 48-17 victory over Rice. Offensively the Irish showed balance and explosiveness spreading the ball around and displayed…
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Notre Dame Names 2014 Football Captains
When Brian Kelly met with the media on Tuesday afternoon for his weekly game week press conference, he said he wasn’t quite ready to name his 2014 captains, but that…
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The Indispensables – 2014 Notre Dame Football Edition
The latest version of the Hollywood blockbuster series the Expendables opened at the box office a couple weeks ago. While the over the hill all-star cast may play the roles…
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Notre Dame Fall Camp ’14 – An Up Close Look at the DL
Notre Dame was back on the practice field Thursday for another round of two-a-days. Today we get an up close look at all of the youngsters along the defensive line…
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Notre Dame Post-Spring 2014 Defensive Outlook
In high school algebra we learned that the difficulty of solving an equation increases in relation to the number of unknowns in the equation. That lesson is applicable to the 2014…
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Duranko’s Digest: Ranking Notre Dame’s Projected ’14 Defensive Starters
As we did last week with the offensive starters, today we rank Notre Dame’s projected defensive starters from top to bottom. Dog LB Jaylon Smith – The Golden child came…
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6 Veterans Notre Dame Needs to Step Up in ’14
Notre Dame didn’t satisfy its goal of returning to the national championship in 2013 due to slipping back into poor habits from 2011. If the Irish want to get back…
Read More » - Notre Dame Defensive Line
Replacing Stephon Tuitt Tall Order for Notre Dame
When Stephon Tuitt announced that he would forgo his senior season at Notre Dame in favor of entering the 2014 NFL Draft on Sunday, a giant hole was created on…
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#9 Sheldon Day – 2013 Top 25 Notre Dame Football Players
We are less than a week away from kick-off to the 2013 season and we are into the single digits of our countdown of the top 25 players on the…
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Get Ready to Know ’13: Sheldon Day
Today we continue our look at players whose name you should get ready to know in 2013 because they very well could be difference makers this fall for Notre Dame.…
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Post Spring ’13 – Notre Dame’s BCS Caliber Units
Notre Dame’s best units, quelle surprise, are on defense. (3) CORNERBACK Two returning starters in Bennett Jackson, on a collision course with the 2014 NFL draft, and KeiVarae Russell, still…
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Replacing Notre Dame’s NFL Bound Talent
Eight former Notre Dame players who played significant roles in the Irish reaching the 2013 BCS Championship game are in Indianapolis this weekend for the NFL Combine. As their professional…
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5 Things I Liked: Michigan ’12
There was a lot to like – and plenty not to like (more on that later) – in Notre Dame’s 13-6 win over Michigan on Saturday night. This week’s installment…
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