With under a week left until Notre Dame football returns to the field for its spring practices, plenty of people are interesting in how some intriguing position battles play out.
There are some positions where there aren’t really any questions for the Irish, like the secondary, but others do have more than a few that could get answered during these practices.
Injuries surely will help shake out some of these battles, but as many of the players are fresh from winter conditioning, there is hope some of these battles don’t drag into the fall.
Here are my five most important Notre Dame football position battles to watch for during the spring.