Live updates: Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman post-spring practice press conference
Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman is speaking to the media this afternoon to wrap up the Fighting Irish’s spring practice schedule. Watch the press conference and/or follow along with live updates of it from Blue & Gold below.
WATCH: Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman post-spring practice press conference
Live updates: What Freeman is saying
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Freeman on Notre Dame’s offensive line
04/23/2025 10:27:07 AMFreeman is speaking like someone who thinks Notre Dame’s five starting offensive linemen are all but set in stone.
Anthonie Knapp
Billy Schrauth
Ashton Craig
Charles Jagusah
Aamil Wagner
Freeman says Notre Dame has plenty of offensive linemen with “big-game, big-moment experience.” “I’m really excited because they are high ceiling guys.”
Freeman says Schrauth and Wagner are as close to their respective ceilings as anyone.
Freeman on Notre Dame’s quarterback battle
04/23/2025 10:24:33 AMFreeman says Notre Dame had three quarterback that performed “really well” over 14 practices. “It was never put into a situation where we needed to [name a starter].”
Notre Dame’s defensive tackle situation
04/23/2025 10:22:02 AMFreeman says Notre Dame has the depth of guys to get the job done at the defensive tackle position, replacing Howard Cross and Rylie Mills. It’s not going to be a straight-up swap in terms of making up the production lost by those two; it’ll be a group effort put forth from five to six capable players.
Roster size limits impacting Notre Dame’s scholarship situation
04/23/2025 10:20:58 AMNotre Dame has a plan for a limit of 85 scholarships or a total roster limit of 105 players, Freeman says. Notre Dame currently has around 95 scholarship players.
Freeman’s stance on a two-QB system at Notre Dame
04/23/2025 10:18:19 AM“We’re going to have a starter. … I’m not a huge proponent of having truly ‘two starters’. … I believe there has to be one guy who’s the starting quarterback.”
Freeman on CJ Carr and Kenny Minchey being in experienced
04/23/2025 10:14:54 AM“The thing you can create with a true competition is some of that pressure that a real game presents. You have to perform in practice.”
A Tyler Buchner update
04/23/2025 10:12:46 AMFreeman says it’s “definitely under consideration” to move Tyler Buchner back to the quarterback room.
Notre Dame end of spring injury report
04/23/2025 10:12:22 AM-Brenan Vernon had MCL surgery
-Boubacar Traore, Kahunu Kia, Ashton Craig, Jordan Botelho will be full-go this summer
-Guerby Lambert and Davion Dixon will be working back from surgeries
-Cooper Flanagan is still recovering from Achilles surgery
Makeup of Notre Dame spring practice schedule
04/23/2025 10:07:38 AMNotre Dame had 14 “true practices,” but Freeman says all 35 days from start to finish of the spring slate included some kind of work that made the Irish better.
Notre Dame’s spring practice goals
04/23/2025 10:06:24 AMFreeman says Notre Dame went into the spring with three main goals
1. Chasing full potential — individually and on a team level
2. Building and elevating trust — between coaches and players, coaches and coaches, players and players
3. Understanding that there is delayed gratification in the work that’s put in now
Thanking fans for Blue-Gold game atmosphere
04/23/2025 10:04:26 AMFreeman starts by thanking the fans and “those involved” with the Blue-Gold Game. He says he doesn’t know if it was the biggest spring game crowd he’s seen at Notre Dame, but “it was impressive.”
