Ryan Roberts continues his countdown of the top 20 player for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in 2025 with numbers 15-11.
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00:00we are continuing the countdown the top 20 notre dame football players
00:03entering the 2025 college football season let's hit number 15 through 11 next
00:09ryan roberts from a to z sports breaking down everything notre dame football folks we began
00:16on the channel the top 20 countdown for the best notre dame football players entering the 2025
00:23season if you missed the first show we broke down number 20 through 16 make sure to go back to the
00:28channel on last week's video a couple interesting surprises and uh you know a couple couple players
00:35that notre dame fans weren't incredibly happy with whether i had them too high or too low but
00:40regardless we're going to continue the countdown here today we're going to start with number 15
00:45where i have rated who i expect to be a huge breakout in 2025 and potentially end up higher
00:50on this list sophomore linebacker kingston villiamo asa on a very deep linebacker room that includes
00:58drake bowen jayden osbury jalen sneed and of course jack kaiser last season kingston still managed
01:04to make his impact known both as a true inside linebacker as well as rushing off the edge now
01:09he was banged up for a couple games down the stretch of the season but when healthy he is arguably the
01:14most versatile player that notre dame has on their defensive side of the football and i expect him
01:19to make a huge jump in his sophomore year the california native has a lot of upside to
01:25potentially impact the defense on several different ways and wear several different hats in 2025 number
01:3014 i have included jordan fazan wide receiver maybe a little bit of a interesting one or a debatable one
01:37on this list i know some people are going to have jordan a little bit lower but i really kind of just
01:41flashback the last offseason when jordan fazan was healthy coming into the season we saw it early on
01:46against texas a&m i expected him to have a huge season now unfortunately jordan was banged up
01:51throughout the year with an ankle injury but we saw when he was healthy and fully himself he was
01:56a very integral part of the notre dame offense and i think now with a lot of attention going to
02:02malachi fields and the boundary a lot of attention going to jaden greathouse for what he did his last
02:06two games of the season i think jordan fazan has a chance to be an x factor in the notre dame offense
02:11heading into the 2025 season a player that i'm very excited about if he's able to stay healthy
02:17coming in at number 13 i have jaden osbury star linebacker who came off of a really good
02:22first year of of legit playing time played a lot of special teams two years ago but this past year
02:28he was a part of that deep linebacker rotation but he made his impact felt six and a half tackles for
02:33loss over 50 tackles if you do his production per snap and you put it upon maybe more of a jack kaiser
02:42type of outlook as far as the total number of snaps he would have had about 80 total tackles
02:47and actually a little bit more and about 10 tackles for loss last season so he was very productive in
02:52the snaps that he got i expect him to be a player that rotates between will and rover maybe even some
02:57mike in certain situations and obvious passing situations and i expect that we see another huge
03:04jump for jay nosbury in 2025 coming in at number 12 christian gray star cornerback
03:11now the best of christian gray is a top 10 player on notre dame's team top 10 absolutely
03:17but just overall talent the unfortunate part is for every great play that christian had last year
03:22he did have some up and down games obviously we look at the usc game for instance as one
03:27that was just kind of the best of christian gray and the worst of christian gray all rolled into one
03:32if he's able to be a more consistent version of himself along with star cornerback leonard moore
03:36i think notre dame has a chance to have the best cornerback duo in all of college football
03:40coming in at number 11 one of the unsung heroes on this team from this past year emil wagner
03:45starting right tackle the only offensive lineman for notre dame that started every single football
03:51game from texas a&m till the national championship game against the ohio state buckeyes six foot six
03:57291 pounds the one thing that is just kind of still holding emil wagner a little bit back from
04:03being one of the better offensive linemen in all of college football is the weights now 291 pounds
04:08now in his fourth year on the team i'm hoping that he takes another physical jump because the
04:13talent is there he's very good athlete he's very consistent player can he become go from consistent
04:18to dominant in 2025 that's the next potential ascension for emil wagner folks let me know what
04:25you think about the list so far player too high player too low player your shock nuts it not is not
04:30in the top 10 or just outside of the top 10 put it in the comment section below make sure hit the like
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