2025 Transfer Portal

[IAIrish]

I mean, if Dejuan Lane jumps in the portal…

Pretty sure ND was in his Top 2/3

Jon Mitchell would be another one. Kris' brother.

 

[NDpendent]

Pretty happy with the two DT adds, one potential starter and one nice depth piece. As @Dale mentioned, it was very unlikely to get the home run pickup some on here wanted. That being said the will be two nice adds.

 

[Sea Turtle]

Still a DE to sign yet?

 

[GoIrish41]

Still a DE to sign yet?

Abdul Carter? Use the whole Orange Bowl check to bring him in. 😉

 

[Rocketman84]

Hughes from USC and Dawson from Louisville? so the staff got first person evaluations on a transfer and went and got them?

Dawson yes, and with Hughes perhaps if someone evaluates guys standing on the sidelines the entire game😶

 

[maxwell]

Dawson yes, and with Hughes perhaps if someone evaluates guys standing on the sidelines the entire game😶

Hughes highlights from high school, looks quick and nasty

 

[Crazy Balki]

Dawson yes, and with Hughes perhaps if someone evaluates guys standing on the sidelines the entire game😶

Hughes played against ND.

Jamie from ISD did a profile of him looking at a couple plays against ND's OL.

 

[CanadalovesND]

Hughes played against ND.

Jamie from ISD did a profile of him looking at a couple plays against ND's OL.

His point was ND took a backup/reserve guy with limited snaps in his career.

 

[GATTACA!]

Hughes highlights from high school, looks quick and nasty

Worst highlight film music I've ever heard.

What the fuck is that?

 

[Rocketman84]

Hughes highlights from high school, looks quick and nasty

He had a very good Jr year but regressed a bit as a Sr

 

[Rocketman84]

Hughes played against ND.

Jamie from ISD did a profile of him looking at a couple plays against ND's OL.

He did play a couple of snaps in the game after Thanksgiving but nothing worthwhile, about like evaluating a kicker making 2 extra points.

 

[Rocketman84]

His point was ND took a backup/reserve guy with limited snaps in his career.

👌

 

[Crazy Balki]

His point was ND took a backup/reserve guy with limited snaps in his career.

He said they evaluated him sitting on the sideline the entire game, which is not true. He played. A decent amount.

And given that ND has Dawson, Rubio and Hinish back, plus several freshmen and sophomores in fold, he's not likely going to be a guy called upon to play more than 20 snaps unless he either makes a jump, which is possible, or injuries.

 

[Crazy Balki]

He did play a couple of snaps in the game after Thanksgiving but nothing worthwhile, about like evaluating a kicker making 2 extra points.

No, it's not. Not even close.

ISD wouldn't have an entire profile dedicated to how he performed against ND if it were just 2-3 snaps.

I don't want to pretend like Hughes is this grand slam uber elite player. He didn't start and it would shock me if he started here. But he did play quite a bit and showed enough on film for the staff to like him enough to offer him.

 

[CanadalovesND]

He said they evaluated him sitting on the sideline the entire game, which is not true. He played. A decent amount.

And given that ND has Dawson, Rubio and Hinish back, plus several freshmen and sophomores in fold, he's not likely going to be a guy called upon to play more than 20 snaps unless he either makes a jump, which is possible, or injuries.

It was an obvious attempt at being facetious on his part because again… Hughes was a rotational, but mostly reserve player at USC.

 

[irish4ever]

The stats don't jump out but SC was pretty bummed to lose him. A lot of comments in the vein of "one of our best young players" hardest worker on the team"

With our defensive coaching staff ... this is music to the ears.

 

[china423]

 

[Dale]

Interesting the addition likely means Shuler plays more of a FS role next season. On many plays the safeties are interchangeable for Golden but Stroman definitely profiles as more of a SS

 

[mrmcgrail]

The article on him has him with almost equal snaps at both safeties and nickel

 

[notredomer23]

Hughes played 17 snaps against ND.

 

[NDMD]

Hughes, as an UG transfer, is clearly being brought in as a depth piece for this year with the potential upside for next.

Rubio has performed admirably. Our run D will be in good shape with him in the middle next to Dawson.

 

[NDFAN2008]

Anyone know how many more we take

 

[Me2SouthBend]

Anyone know how many more we take

You almost made it through an entire post w use of a d or a t. Thought maybe you’d worn those letters off your keyboard. Oh well.

 

[CanadalovesND]

Anyone know how many more we take

This is likely the last one for this portal window.

 

[TracyGraham]

Is Rico Flores the only player that has left ND, thus far during the NIL era, that we presumably would have wanted to stay? In other words, I'm guessing all the other guys transferred out because other schools offered a better opportunity/wanted them more(not sure exactly how to word this better). Would Logan Diggs be in this category as well? Just curious as my memory/info is pretty crappy on this. thanks in advance!

 

[BoredIrish]

There are a lot of teams out there with work left to do in the portal. Typically the winter window was more active than the spring. I wonder if the spring window will be more active this year?

 

[NDWarrior]

Can you imagine seeing interlopers playing B-ball on your burned home's court during this tragedy? Ex-USC QB Miller Moss rips outlet for misrepresenting post-wildfire footage of strangers playing basketball at family's home

 

[NDWarrior]

There are a lot of teams out there with work left to do in the portal. Typically the winter window was more active than the spring. I wonder if the spring window will be more active this year?

Just MO, but I would think this winter one will always be the most active window, but with NIL even frothier, and potential 5th year changes and developing GTs, and of course, QBs and others seeing they may not be starting in the Fall, should be decent activity, but we'll see.

 

[stlnd01]

Is Rico Flores the only player that has left ND, thus far during the NIL era, that we presumably would have wanted to stay? In other words, I'm guessing all the other guys transferred out because other schools offered a better opportunity/wanted them more(not sure exactly how to word this better). Would Logan Diggs be in this category as well? Just curious as my memory/info is pretty crappy on this. thanks in advance!

Nana Osafa-Mensah would’ve been good to have this year (I think he was like second team all-Big 12 at TCU?). I think Jacob Lacey went on to good things at Oklahoma?
But both those guys left bc they’d been passed over. Nana was basically pushed out right?
I liked Diggs but wouldn’t say we’ve missed him, really, given other RBs on the roster. I’m not sure where Flores would’ve landed in our WR rotation this year but he’s not better than our first-line guys.
Point is we haven’t yet lost a transfer we couldn’t easily replace. I’ve been worried that this portal season will test that - just bc good players seem to be jumping for bags all over the sport right now and eventually that’ll be one of ours - but hopefully our deep playoff run fends that off.

 

[Rocketman84]

He said they evaluated him sitting on the sideline the entire game, which is not true. He played. A decent amount.

And given that ND has Dawson, Rubio and Hinish back, plus several freshmen and sophomores in fold, he's not likely going to be a guy called upon to play more than 20 snaps unless he either makes a jump, which is possible, or injuries.

He played 19 snaps in his career (very minimal) vs Notre Dame and has registered NO STATS to speak of, so yes he was basically on the sideline 90% of the time against Notre Dame in his 2 years (18 snaps). I wasn't being literal but if your evaluating a WR and determining how good he is over 2 years who has 0rec 0yds on 0targets in games against us pretty sure those games wouldn't be the measuring stick.