Beyond the stars: 10 Notre Dame football wildcards who could raise the ceiling in 2025

You can thank Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman’s realization of the value of developing and investing in even the fringes of the roster — not just for injury replacement, but for deeper positional rotations and more robust special teams units. Which inspired today’s self-assigned homework show-and-tell: The 10 most intriguing roster wildcards outside the top 25 on my ballot.