Marcus Freeman updates Jarrett Patterson's status heading into Week 2

Jarrett Patterson is one of the biggest question marks for Notre Dame as he works his way back from an injury. He didn’t play against Ohio State, and Marcus Freeman had another update ahead of the Fighting Irish’s matchup against Marshall in Week 2.

Patterson suffered a foot sprain in practice earlier this month and has been working his way back. He participated in warm-ups ahead of Notre Dame’s season-opening loss to Ohio State, but didn’t end up participating.

Freeman explained why Patterson warmed up and didn’t play and said it’s still going to be wait-and-see for his senior captain this week.

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“The communication we had with the medical staff with Jarrett was, ‘Let’s go through warm-ups and see how you feel,'” Freeman said. “When you get to that environment, sometimes the excitement and what that environment will do for you will kind of numb the pain sometimes. He wasn’t able to go after warm-ups. So, we said we made the decision, ‘OK, you won’t go.’ We’ll re-evaluate him today and this week and I would still think he’s questionable. Let’s see. If he’s ready to go, we’re going to play him this week.”

Marcus Freeman on Tyler Buchner: We got ourselves a quarterback

Notre Dame may not have gotten the result they wanted in their opening game versus Ohio State, falling 21-10 to the Buckeyes. But head coach Marcus Freeman still was impressed and pleased with the play of his quarterback Tyler Buchner in his first career collegiate start.

“I was pleased, for a second-year guy in his first collegiate start in that type of environment and in that type of game, I was really pleased. I think at one point in the first half Tyler was eight of eight, but like eight of ten in the first half or something like that, that’s really good,” Freeman said. “They had sent me some number for a QB rating, I don’t know much about QB rating so I told them I can’t use that, but I was really pleased.”