Rodney Dunham

He missed on some plays where I'm like, man, if Bubba Cartrider was in there, he probably makes that play.

And then Rodney Dunham, the true freshen, he was on the field for 21 snaps, the most he has played in a game of consequence, and he didn't register a single stat.

So I really like the future of Rodney Dunham, but he was clearly not ready for a spot like this one.

And that's really unfortunate because Notre Dame needed a big presence on the edge.

And on the other side of the defensive line, I don't think Bryce Young stepped up in Boubacar's absence either.

Now, Notre Dame staff could be listening to this and be like, Mike, you're a moron, this is why, and maybe I'm just wrong here, but that just doesn't make sense to me.

Keon probably made, I mean, he made like four or five plays, and he actually had a decent game, but like, Why not more Rodney Dunham? I don't know.

But regardless, Boubacar really put Notre Dame in a bad spot early in that game, Tim.

And the...

However, this is a completely different animal, no pun intended.

The Cougars are going to see in the Fighting Irish with the likes of Bryce Young, as we know, Boubacar Traoré, and the immensely gifted freshman Rodney Dunham coming off the edge, and a smattering of beef up the middle.

Guys like Francis Brew, Armel Mukhame, Elijah Hughes, Tyon Gray, and Sean Savolono.

Notre Dame simply knows how to stop the opposition's run and get to the quarterback.

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And switching gears now, and for as much as the Cougars still want to run the football, right? That's their identity.

They do have some talent on the outside- Particularly as I teased yesterday in the form of one gifted freshman, six one, hundred seventy-five pound Utah native legend, Glasper leads BYU in receiving this season, and he's been a reliable option beyond that for Bachmeier.

Across five games, he's hauled in nineteen balls for three hundred seventy-eight yards and three scores, and his per catch average of nineteen point nine yards is almost top five in the country.

I, I feel like ironically a lot of the, a lot of more of them are like the targets that I guess looking back in hindsight now, maybe it was a telltale sign that they didn't end up visiting for a game day, but-

Rodney Dunham was one that went a year without visiting.

Yep.

So when you, when you skip a full, like if you go spring to spring, right? Or excuse me, if you go, you visit-

So yeah, really.

I, I mean, the ed- the edge rushers they have in, uh, '27 with, uh, Abraham Sesay and Jackson Vaughn is, is... that's a really impressive duo.

That, that, that rivals what they got in, uh, Rodney Dummitt, Rodney Dunham, and Ebenezer Utada, who are the best edge rushing duo Notre Dame has practically ever landed and, and the best edge rushing duo that they... i- in the entire '27 or '26 cycle.

Yeah.

Anyone else you want to add before we wrap this one

up? I think Rodney Dunham is going to really elevate to that number three address or position.

I think it's just a matter of time for him.

Yeah, I think I wrote down Keon Keeley, and I think there's been less signs of that in terms of, I don't know, maybe that's another hopeful one.

And, I mean, I would say that's one of the reasons, too.

Speaking of, like, opportunity, I think if it happened that, like, Keely or Logan Thomas or just any one of the DNs had to miss a game for some reason that were above, like, Rodney Dunham gets elevated, gets more snaps, and he's already, like, kind of pushed his way into snaps, but it's, like, If one of those guys, that's what it'll probably take for him to just fully get thrown in and to have that really big breakout because the other guys have just played well.

Like they've just played well.

And it hasn't been like flashy from like, say like Keon Keely or anything like that, but he's so much better player than he was in the spring.