Notre Dame began practice Friday with another no-huddle session, with the first and second teams running a few plays each. Reporters also got to see the Irish kickoff return team in action for the first time in camp.<\/p>\n
Here are Blue & Gold\u2019s observations from Notre Dame\u2019s offense.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Notable personnel notes in the no-huddle session: The receivers remained the same. Junior Jayden Thomas<\/a><\/strong>, sophomore Tobias Merriweather and freshman Jaden Greathouse ran with the first team, while freshman Rico Flores Jr. graduate student Matt Salerno and freshman Jordan Faison<\/a><\/strong> ran with the second team. In individual drills, though, the groupings were more in line with what we expect to see this season: Thomas, Merriweather and senior Chris Tyree with the first team; Greathouse, Flores and junior Deion Colzie with the second team.<\/p>\n \u2022 Sophomore Gi\u2019Bran Payne took the reps with the first team at running back. He is obviously not displacing junior Audric Estim\u00e9, but he appears to be healthy after appearing to tweak his ankle Tuesday night. Either Notre Dame likes him in that no-huddle, pass-heavy situation or they\u2019re just trying him out in that role.<\/p>\n \u2022 Daily guard update: Juniors Pat Coogan and Rocco Spindler still played with the first team. Sophomore Billy Schrauth played left guard again with the second team, but stepping in at right guard was freshman Charles Jagusah.<\/p>\n \u2022 Notre Dame\u2019s first-team kickoff return during practice Friday was as follows:<\/p>\n Colzie \u2014\u00a0Salerno \u2014 Thomas \u2014\u00a0freshman linebacker Drayk Bowen \u2014 senior linebacker Jack Kiser was the front lineSophomore Vyper Joshua Burnham, junior tight end Davis Sherwood, freshman tight end Cooper Flanagan and sophomore Vyper Junior Tuihalamaka formed a diamond as the second line. Burnham and Flanagan were the sides, Sherwood was the front and Tuihalamaka was the back.Payne and graduate running back Devyn Ford were the returners. Tyree and Flores returned kicks with the second team.<\/p>\n \u2022 In 11-on-11, for the second time this week, Merriweather dropped an accurate pass from graduate quarterback Sam Hartman that hit his hands. The sophomore receiver leaped up to get it in traffic over sophomore cornerback Jaden Mickey, but he couldn\u2019t haul it in. It would have been an impressive catch, but it\u2019s one he needs to make if he\u2019s going to reach his sky-high ceiling.<\/p>\n \u2022 With the second team, Faison stood out with two catches over the middle, about 15-25 yards downfield, from sophomore quarterback Steve Angeli. Credit to Blue & Gold\u2019s Kyle Kelly, who has been driving the Faison train for a couple weeks now, but it really looks like Notre Dame found something with him.<\/p>\n \u2022 What really stands out with Faison, even in individual drills, is his acceleration. When Faison wants to turn on the jets, he can really <\/em>turn on the jets.<\/p>\n Notre Dame\u2019s post-practice media availability will start earlier than normal. Blue & Gold will have more in-depth analysis on the full-team action after that.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Observations from Notre Dame football fall camp practice No. 14: Offense<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Notre Dame began practice Friday with another no-huddle session, with the first and second teams…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}