Notre Dame football has already answered several major question marks that existed heading into Spring Practice

Spring practice has come and gone for the Notre Dame football program. As is typically the case, that practice slate gave everyone a lot of optimism for how good the 2025 team can be. There will be position battles that rage in the rest of the offseason, and continue into fall camp, but there were also several questions already answered.

Here are a couple of positions that Fighting Irish fans should feel a lot better about heading into the next stage of this offseason. Things will, of course, change over the next several months. That doesn’t change the fact that this program, and in this case several key positions, continue to create more and more excitement.

This might be a surprise to some, and confusing to others, but I feel much better about the quarterback position than I did heading into the spring. Wait, but, this means Notre Dame is going to be starting a completely unproven quarterback against Miami? With Steve Angeli hitting the portal, that means that the quarterback room is thinner than it was prior?

Heading into the spring, there seemed like two likely scenarios. It was the assumption that either Angeli or CJ Carr would probably end up being the top signal caller for the team in the end. Things changed once Kenny Minchey had a big spring, which forced Angeli to make the decision to leave. That speaks to the overall strength of the room. Angeli, on paper, brings the most experience and trust in the offense. Both Carr and Minchey beating him out in the spring give me a lot of confidence that either of them will end up being just fine, and then some.

As it turns out, the safety depth is so strong that Kennedy Urlacher made the decision to transfer to USC in result. Which one of Brauntae Johnson, Luke Talich, JaDon Blair, or Jalen Stroman will pick up the most slack? The answer appears to be that it doesn’t really matter. That is a lot of length and athleticism for one group. No matter what the split share at safety ends up looking like, the impact looks like it’ll be pretty dang good.