Most Underrated Notre Dame Football Player?

[RDU Irish]

Ryan Grant and Joey Getherall
ditto on Grimes and Shelton

 

[Who'saWildManNow]

Shane Walton and Vontez Duff

 

[adsnorri]

Rudy? Oh my bad, this is a different thread!

 

[arrowryan]

Rhema McKnight(sp). Shark, Stovall, and McKnight were great together in 2005. I thought McKnight was a great receiver but didn't get much praise because of Shark and Stovall

 

[military_irish]

Rhema McKnight(sp). Shark, Stovall, and McKnight were great together in 2005. I thought McKnight was a great receiver but didn't get much praise because of Shark and Stovall

McKnight got hurt in the the second game of the season. It was just Shark and Stovall that year.

 

[arrowryan]

McKnight got hurt in the the second game of the season. It was just Shark and Stovall that year.

Was he out the whole year? Before he got hurt he was an awesome receiver

 

[Bogtrotter07]

The comment about Watt on the current team is interesting. You can ad Golic to that list, last year could have been a real disaster after Cave went down.

Back a few years, Powers-Neal, with him, Tuck as a senior, and the other guy we lost, we may have made the NC game.

 

[military_irish]

Was he out the whole year? Before he got hurt he was an awesome receiver

Yeah he missed the whole season after that because he messed up his knee, not sure of exact injury. He was a good receiver before that and things may have been different if all three of those guys were on the field at the same time. Also had Fasano and a young Carlson on that team too.

 

[theclassickiller]

Trevor Laws... hands down. I agree with FIL7, that man was on a different level than anyone on the team, and frankly put up stats no defensive lineman in the country could touch. He only fell a couple of tackles short of the single season ND record if I remember correctly.

Also, no one has said Ndukwe. Not only was he a solid defender at worst, but he brought us Brady Quinn. We owe two years of success to him exclusively!

 

[military_irish]

I would throw Glenn Earl in the mix, also Tony Driver.

 

[ab2cmiller]

I'll go with Harrison Smith.

I think we all counted him as an excellent talent, but I don't think very many people viewed him as a first round draft pick kind of talent, of which we have had very few in recent history. Prior to this year, we only had 2 first round draft picks since 2000.

 

[Grahambo]

Chinedum Ndukwe

That hit on Megatron was awesome.

 

[STLcardz-NDirish]

Chinedum Ndukwe

That hit on Megatron was awesome.

HELL yeah! Ndukwe crushes Calvin Johnson - YouTube

 

[Rocket's Rocket Fan]

HELL yeah! Ndukwe crushes Calvin Johnson - YouTube

His coverage was awful on that play, but one of my favorite hits by an ND player.

 

[DANsanity15]

Nedu Ndukwe or Maurice Stovall

 

[NDBoiler]

Kinnon Tatum - if for no other reason than this hit from the 95 USC game:

1995 Notre Dame vs. USC - Kinnon Tatum - YouTube

I was at that game sitting in the opposite endzone, so you could see the hole open and him come flying in to hit the RB and the ball just popped up in the air...ah, good times

 

[ab2cmiller]

Kinnon Tatum - if for no other reason than this hit from the 95 USC game:

1995 Notre Dame vs. USC - Kinnon Tatum - YouTube

I was at that game sitting in the opposite endzone, so you could see the hole open and him come flying in to hit the RB and the ball just popped up in the air...ah, good times

Thanks for that clip. It had been so long since I had seen it that I had almost forgot about it.

 

[NDBoiler]

Thanks for that clip. It had been so long since I had seen it that I had almost forgot about it.

No problem! Him and Lyron Cobbins were beasts IMO.