Daelin Hayes

Of the two units on the Notre Dame football team, the one with the most questions resides with the defense. The offense had been largely intact entering spring practice; most of those who follow the team closely could have predicted ...

Brian Kelly gave the media some good injury news on Thursday when discussing the availability of junior defensive end Daelin Hayes.  According to the Notre Dame head coach, Hayes has been cleared and we could see him as early as ...

Notre Dame played the entire first half without its starting DROP end Daelin Hayes on Saturday after the junior suffered a stinger against Stanford.  They ended up playing the entire second game without their backup DROP as well after Julian ...

We have reached the top 10 in our countdown of the top 25 football players on the Notre Dame roster in 2018.  We’re now getting into the area of Notre Dame’s elite players.  The players who could start for almost ...

Hayes is a bit of an outlier in the “Now Or Never” series. I don’t ever see him losing his job, at least not permanently. But, from an expectations standpoint, 2019 is likely the season when we find out if ...

We’re about to get our yearly taste of spring football with the Irish set for their first of 15 practices on Tuesday.  Notre Dame heads into the spring with a new defensive coordinator and a quarterback competition on their hands. ...

Because I’m very smart and know lots of things, I ranked the Notre Dame defensive line the second worst unit on the team prior to the season. This was in lieu of the assurances from the defensive coaches throughout the ...

We’ve reached the top 10 of countdown of the Top 25 Notre Dame football players for 2017 and have just one more installment left after today.  Today’s set of players includes a few intriguing players whose rankings right now are ...

We are less than two weeks from the opening of the 2017 season against Temple, classes have started, so it’s time to make some guesses. The Fighting Irish recently completed their big pre-season scrimmage, the depth chart is coming together, ...

In the latest installment of the Better or Worse series, we get into the nitty gritty: the defensive line. This is where titles are won. Up the middle, in the trenches, among the big uglies, as they say. Let’s be ...

For Notre Dame to rebound from last year’s 4-8 campaign this fall, the Fighting Irish are going to need a lot of players to step up and become breakout stars this year.  A very young team in 2016, Notre Dame ...

New Notre Dame defensive coordinator Mike Elko has his work cut out for him with the Irish defense but nowhere is that more apparent than the defensive line.  Despite featuring two veteran, potential star linemen in 2016, the Notre Dame ...

When it rains it pours, the hits just keep on coming, if it wasn’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all, kick a man while he’s down, and just when you thought things couldn’t get worse you go ...

The long national nightmare known as “summer” is almost over and the wait for football is coming to an end.  Notre Dame kicks off its 2016 season in just a few days and the Irish will be looking to win ...

Notre Dame is in desperate need of a pass rusher along its rebuilt defensive line.  It sounds like the Irish might be ready to look to true freshman Daelin Hayes to be that pass rusher based on Brian Kelly’s remarks ...