Notre Dame has a rich football history. The school has had as many Heisman Trophy winners as any other college football program and has been a hot-bed for NFL talent. However, the first part of this century wasn’t nearly as talent-rich as the last decade has been.
Since the year 2000 Notre Dame has had 11 players taken in the first round of the NFL Draft and they weren’t all recruited to Notre Dame by him but all but two of those players played under Brian Kelly.
It’s insane to see the talent-level improve as this list goes on. It makes you wonder yet again what the heck was actually happening during the Davie, Willingham and some of the Weis years.
Before we start going through the names, how many of the 11 can you name to yourself? It starts in 2003.