Running Backs
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Notre Dame RB Chris Tyree Primed for a Breakout Season
The former #1 all-purpose back and #70 player nationally on 247 Sports, Chris Tyree, is now at the top of the depth chart in South Bend. After an outstanding freshman…
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Kyren Williams’s Epic Touchdown With an Epic Spanish Soccer Announcer Call
Kyren Williams’s epic 91-yard touchdown against North Carolina is a play that will be talked about for years to come by Notre Dame fans. It’s a play that is epic…
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Hype Building for Notre Dame Freshmen RB Duo
When Notre Dame lost the Will Shipley recruiting sweepstakes to Clemson last April, the Irish were left scrambling at the running back position for the class of 2021. After resetting…
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The Future is Bright for Notre Dame Football’s Chris Tyree
When Chris Tyree committed to Notre Dame’s 2020 recruiting class, Brian Kelly added one of the country’s most skilled players. The freshman running back made an immediate impact for the…
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’21 Outlook: Running Backs Set To Carry Notre Dame Offense Again
In an offseason full of change for the Notre Dame offense, one position that isn’t going to be seeing a ton of it is at running back. The top three…
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Notre Dame Football: Kyren Williams Took A Major Step Forward in 2020
After a slow start in South Bend during his freshman season, Kyren Williams burst on to the scene in 2020 as a steadfast running back and became a household name.…
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Notre Dame’s Kyren Williams Has Cool Interaction with NFL Great
Growing up in the St. Louis area, Notre Dame star running back Kyren Williams idolized former Rams great Steven Jackson. Earlier this week, Williams retweeted a picture of himself as…
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Lebron James Gives Shoutout to Notre Dame RB Kyren Williams
Yesterday’s Notre Dame – North Carolina game was an entertaining game. It started out looking like it would be a shootout only to turn into a defensive struggle for a…
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Notre Dame RB Kyren Williams Grabbed the Attention of Prominent NFL Draft Expert
A couple weeks ago the big news for Notre Dame football was the emergence of Kyren Williams at running back. After saving a year of eligibility last fall, he was…
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Brian Kelly Defines Hybrid Role for Notre Dame LB/RB Osita Ekwonu
A couple of weeks ago, one of the few roster developments we had this summer was the moving of sophomore Ositas Ekwonu and wide receiver Kendall Abdur-Rahim to running back.…
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Kyren Williams Poised To Breakout For Notre Dame Football
It used to be that running back was conventionally considered the weakness of the offense. Stocked with a talented and experienced line, speed and size at wide receiver, plus tremendous…
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Can Chris Tyree Be Notre Dame Football’s Lead Back In 2020?
A good many of you read the headline and decided I was crazy before you even clicked. The undersized freshman running back, who didn’t enroll early, is going to be…
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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…
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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…
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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 –…
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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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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…
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Jafar Armstrong: Notre Dame Football’s Next CJ Prosise?
When Notre Dame’s running back depth chart was decimated by dismissals and early departures for the NFL, the Notre Dame coaching staff had to look to its current roster for…
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Mystery, Intrigue Surround Running Back for Notre Dame
When Josh Adams made his decision to leave Notre Dame early for the NFL, the Irish depth chart looked well equipped to handle the early departure. Things haven’t gone quite…
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Will Avery Davis, Jafar Armstrong Give Notre Dame Options?
The annual Blue and Gold game tends to produce some spring all-stars every year who never end up parlaying their spring performances into fall production so it’s never a great…
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Jafar Armstrong Part of Running Back Depth Answer for Notre Dame
With just three scholarship running backs on the roster for spring practice and just one more arriving in the summer, it was inevitable that someone would move to running back…
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Notre Dame’s Josh Adams Running Towards Head of Heisman Pack
Notre Dame running back Josh Adams wasn’t on anyone’s Heisman radar really when the season started. Even after ripping off a couple of big games early in the season, he…
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Notre Dame Football’s Backfield is LOADED in 2017
For all of the consternation over Brian Kelly’s preference for a passing game, Notre Dame has actually had a few years under his tenure where the Irish were a bonafide…
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Josh Adams: Notre Dame Football’s Next Star Running Back?
Attempting to assess the wreckage of a 4-8 campaign in 2016 has the Notre Dame coaching staff looking at things that actually went right and what they can improve on…
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