Head athletic trainer Rob Hunt gives full details on every Notre Dame football injury

Notre Dame currently has 14 injuries that will affect its players during spring practice. Five will have their activity modified in some form, while nine will miss spring ball entirely.

On Thursday afternoon, Notre Dame head athletic trainer Rob Hunt gave detailed, up-to-date information on each injured player. Here’s all the info Hunt gave to reporters.

Notre Dame football players listed under “modified activity” for spring ball

“[Sophomore DL] Cole Mullins is recovering from a knee injury, knee surgery that he had last fall. He’s gonna be limited early in our first few weeks of spring ball, but expect him to have some participation as we get to the second part of our spring practices.”

“[Graduate student Wisconsin transfer WR] Will Pauling joined us in January, and on his physical exam process, we identified a stress injury in his foot, so we quickly took care of that. He’s in the fourth week of his recovery there. He’s doing outstanding. It’s been a really, really good recovery, but we value offseason conditioning and he missed the majority of our offseason conditioning. So he’s gonna transition into our spring practices as we build up volume and intensity for him. You can expect to see him doing some drill work early on and moving into some more football-related team activities as we get to the back end of spring.”

“[Senior G] Billy Schrauth, we’re gonna clean up his ankle, his other ankle. We’re gonna have a clean-up procedure on his ankle this week, during spring break. Similar, should be a quick recovery. He’s had the majority of our winter program, but we’re gonna pause a little bit to do full maintenance on that and allow him to have the back end of spring as well. … It’s good timing for him to be taking care of that and moving into the fall, full summer, that type of work.”

“[Sophomore OT] Anthonie Knapp had surgery a couple days after the Orange Bowl and is continuing to progress really nicely through that, for his ankle injury that he sustained there. He also has progressed nicely, but it’s going to be kind of give or take in terms of how much work he gets as he continues to progress over the next three-to-four weeks in his activity and training and intensity and build-up of volume, again, so we’re not just throwing guys that missed winter programming back into the fire right away.”

“[Sophomore OL] Robbie Wollan, one of our walk-ons, had meniscus surgery just after the CFP and will be also gradually brought back into activity as we get going here through spring football.”

Fighting Irish who will miss spring practice

“[Graduate student VYP] Jordan Botelho is progressing very well from a patellar tendon rupture versus Purdue last year. He’s about five and a half months in and is absolutely killing it in the rehab and return to play process. Expect a great summer for him. Expect him to have a full summer of unrestricted activities, so our targets for him are to continue to progress through spring here — he’s not gonna have any drill work or any individual work — but continue to add strength in preparation for him to have an unrestricted summer.”

“[Senior C] Ashton Craig, very similar, same day. He’s five months in, post-op, ACL and is progressing nicely.”

“[Freshman DL] Davion Dixon, one of our mid-year [freshmen], suffered an injury last week that’s going to require surgery. He’s gonna have a pec tendon repair here during spring break and miss all of spring, that’ll allow him then to have a full summer of participation for himself.”

“[Junior TE] Cooper Flanagan is eight weeks into his Achilles repair and is progressing nicely. He’s gonna miss all of spring. He’s got continued work through the summer. These are anywhere from eight to 10 months in terms of his recovery, and it’s just gonna be a gradual progression back to activity and work through that rehab process, but he’ll miss all of spring and be modified for the early part of the summer.”

“[Junior LB] Kahanu Kia is eight months into an ACL rehab. He previously injured the same knee on his Mormon mission, so this is ACL times two for him. We’re gonna be super intentional about his recovery. The goal for him is to have an unrestricted summer. He’s doing really well. If it were an ACL one, might be pushing him a little bit more, but this is ACL two, so he’s going to follow a little bit longer return to play timeline for himself there.”

“[Graduate student Virginia Tech transfer S] Jalen Stroman, very similar to Will [Pauling] on his physical exam process. He had an injury last year at Virginia Tech, a clavicle fracture. It ended up not healing for him, so we needed to take care of that when he got to campus. He’s going to be moving around a little bit during spring ball in the second half, but he’ll have no contact. He’s not going to be exposed to any type of risk for himself. Expect a full recovery and unrestricted activity for him in the summer.”

“[Junior G] Chris Terek had some clean-up on his foot and will also have a second surgery on his shoulder while his foot is recovered enough. So Chris is going to miss all of spring here with us and be fully ready for the fall.”

“[Junior VYP] Boubacar Traore had his ACL, LCL injury from the [Louisville] game and is progressing really well. Super encouraged by his progress. He’s five months in on that surgery, and again, expect him to have an unrestricted summer for himself. He’s gotta build more strength and those kinds of things, but doing very nicely at this point.”

“[Graduate student CB] Chance Tucker is six months in from his ACL, MCL injury and is in great position for an unrestricted summer.”

Notre Dame begins spring practice March 19.