Noah Grubbs

It would seem like the bye week would be the perfect time if you were going to do that.

But I give Noah Grubbs credit.

He has taken advantage of every game rep that he has, and he also took advantage of the head start he has.

He's a year advanced in terms of high school.

But I think these guys, they're happy with both of them.

I think this is about 2027 eventually.

Right now it's about if C.J. Carr gets hurt and Noah Grubbs would definitely be the guy to come into a game, he'd also be the next guy to start the game.

But as Marcus Freeman pointed out, the year before C.J. Carr started, he was the fourth-string quarterback, and he leaped over Kenny Minchey and Steve Vangeli I think Teddy is the highest ceiling guy.

Of those two freshmen, um, who would you think...

Who had a higher ceiling as a recruit, and did that change for you once they, you know, got to Notre Dame? Do you have a different opinion of Teddy, uh, Gerrard and Noah Grubbs?

I thought Teddy had a better ar- had better arm strength.

Noah was a little bit more, um, production-wise playing.

They didn't allow a sack all game long.

CJ Carr and Noah Grubbs had all day to throw, and CJ Carr has only been sacked twice all season, and one of those came on the opening drive of the year.

And at the beginning of the season, when you and I did our preseason award show, I picked the offensive line for the Brothers Bar and Grill Award, which goes to the position group that might frustrate you at times, but delivers when it matters most.

And although they got off to a slow start, man, they're starting to play their best football at exactly the right time.

Uh, a couple other things I wanted to point out from the press conference.

Marcus Freeman had some interesting comments about the backup quarterback situation because, as we've seen, Noah Grubbs has been getting the bulk of the work once CJ Carr comes out of the game and, and Notre Dame goes out there with the backups.

But Marcus wanted to make it clear that just because Noah's the one getting the backup reps now, that doesn't mean that it's, uh, predictive of what's gonna happen in 2027 when Notre Dame has to make a quarterback decision.

And Freeman referenced how when CJ Carr was a, a true freshman, he was still running the scout team, but he improved so much in practice and used all of his opportunities there to get better as a player that he went from being the scout team quarterback as a freshman to the starting quarterback in his second season with the program.

Do not expose him.

Again, nothing against Noah Grubbs, but we have a championship caliber team here.

This is what we're supposed to look like.

dominating an upfront on both sides of the ball.

I don't know.

But yeah, the fact that they were so close together was very disconcerting.

But I will say, I want to bring up Noah Grubbs.

This is the first time, I mean, yeah, he was given some opportunities to make some throws.